482 
Mr. Douglas Carrutliers on Birds 
a. S • Madeba, E. of Dead Sea. 22 April, 1909. 
Very common in spring and summer on the corn-lands 
of Moab. 
11. Calandrella brachydactyla. 
Calandrella brachydactyla Tristr. Pal. p. 80; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. xiii. p. 580. 
a. $ . Madeba, E. of Dead Sea. 22 April, 1909. 
12. AMMOMANES DESERTl. 
Ammomanes deserti Tristr. Pal. p. 79. 
Ammomanes deserti isabellina Hartert, Voer. Pal. Eaun. i. 
p. 223. 
a. ? . Wadi Zerka Main, E. of Dead Sea. 25 April, 
1909. 
b. $ . Tebuk, Hedjaz Railway. 1 Jan., 1909. 
Fairly common wherever there are rocky hills in desert 
regions. 
13. Ammomanes cincturus. 
Ammomanes cinctura Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 644. 
a, b. $ • South end of Dead Sea. 1 May, 1909. 
c. Sex doubtful. Teima, N.W. Arabia. 1 March, 1909. 
The occurrence of this Lark in the Dead Sea Basin makes 
an addition to the list of Palestine birds. It is easily 
distinguished from Ammomanes deserti by the black edging 
to the tail. 
14. Ammomanes saturatus. 
Ammomanes saturatus Grant, Nov. Zool. vol. vii. 1900, 
p. 249. 
a. $ ; b. ? . Tebuk, Hedjaz Railway. 4 Jan., 1909. 
This specimen agrees with those obtained in Southern 
Arabia by the Perciv&l-Dobson Expedition. Mr. Percival 
states that it is essentially a hill-bird, and is never seen 
on the plains; but I found it on the northern deserts far 
away from any hill-country. 
As this species has been hitherto only recorded from 
Abyssinia and S. Arabia, the extension of its range north¬ 
wards, as far as the Land of Midian, is of interest. 
