. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . r as Brazil. 106. Collie rtipestris. (Scopoli. Ann. I. Hist. Nat., p. 167.) CragMartin. The Crag Martin resides in all the glens of Palestine throughout theyear, not generally in large numbers, and only in a few places appearingdecidedly gregarious. It breeds early in March, laying, unlike most otherMartins, spotted eggs. Though confined entirely to the localities indicated by its name, theCrag Martin has a wide range from Spain to China, not extending, how-ever, very far north or south of that line. So far as I have observe
. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . r as Brazil. 106. Collie rtipestris. (Scopoli. Ann. I. Hist. Nat., p. 167.) CragMartin. The Crag Martin resides in all the glens of Palestine throughout theyear, not generally in large numbers, and only in a few places appearingdecidedly gregarious. It breeds early in March, laying, unlike most otherMartins, spotted eggs. Though confined entirely to the localities indicated by its name, theCrag Martin has a wide range from Spain to China, not extending, how-ever, very far north or south of that line. So far as I have observed, inthe Atlas, Greece, Asia Minor, and Palestine, it is sedentary. 107. Cotile obsokta. Cabanis. Mus. Hein. i., p. 50. Pale CragMartin. This small species is in Palestine entirely confined to the Dead Seabasin, where it is sedentary. Round the sea itself it is the only species,but at the north end it mingles with C. rupestris, and they both breed inthe same caves in Jebel Ouarantania. This is essentially a desert species, as the last is a mountain one. It Wii, . /«: -•»» \ Iith. HNNYRIS OSEE. JianKari i A VES. 63 is found in Egypt, Nubia, Abyssinia, Arabia, and the Persian and Indiandeserts. In habits it differs from its congener, sweeping the desert plainsrather than soaring over the mountain cliffs. FAMILY, 108. Tichodroina niuraria. (Linn. Syst. Nat. i., p. 184.) WallCreeper. The beautiful Creeper, the Butterfly Bird of the French, is commonthroughout the year in all the rocky gorges of Central and NorthernPalestine, from the glens opening on the plain of Gennesaret to thehighest cliffs of Lebanon. No ornithological sight is more interestingthan the movements of this richly coloured bird as it flits along the faceof a line of cliffs, spreading its brilliant crimson wings at each sidlingjerk. The Wall Creeper is found in the mountain regions of all Centraland Southern Europe and Asia, from Spain to the Himalayas andChina. FAMILY, NECTARINIID
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