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the Ghor es Sarfeh, During three seasons in Syria and 
Palestine this was the only locality where I came across it, 
41. HaICYON SMYRNENSIS. 
Halcyon smyrnensis Tristr. Pah p. 8 7 ; Sharpe, Cat, B. 
xvii. p. 222 . 
This is a common bird on the mountain-torrents that flow 
into the Dead Sea from the east, where it feeds on the 
shoals of fish that inhabit all those streams, 
I never saw the Pied Kingfisher in the vicinity of the Dead 
Sea* but on the Upper Jordan and on the Sea of Tiberias 
Ceryle rudis is the commoner bird and Halcyon smyrnensis 
the rarer. 
42. CURSORIUS GALLICUS. 
Cursorius gallicus Tristr. Pal, p. 128; Sharpe* Cat, B. 
Xxiv. p. 34. 
a t $ . Teima, N.W. Arabia. 28 Feb,, 1909. 
This bird was seen on the deserts near the Oases of Tebuk 
and Teima. 
43. ScOLOfAX RUSTICULA. 
Scolopax rusticula Tristr, Pal. p. 132 ; Sharpe* Cat* B. 
xxiv. p. 671. 
I saw the Common Woodcock on one occasion in the Oasis 
of Teima. 
44. Turtur communis. 
Turtur communis Tristr. Pal. p. 120; Salvadori, Cat. B. 
xxi. p. 396. 
This Dove is very common in the oleander groves in the 
declivities of the Moab Plateau, 
45. Pterocles arenarius. 
Pterocles arenarius Tristr, Pal. p. 122; Grant, Cat. B. 
xxii. p, 18, 
Large flocks of this Sandgrouse were observed in the Belka 
country in the Land of Moab* but during my three hundred 
miles* journey to the south-east of that district I never saw 
any of this species, 
