. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . nidification also pass further to the southwardin winter than do the others. Thus the migrating Fieldfare and Redwing,visiting regions north of the Thrush and the Blackbird, on their southwardmigration leave their more sedentary relatives behind. The Brambling,which passes the Chaffinch in Norway, leaves it also in Europe, andcrosses the Mediterranean every winter to the Barbary States. TheEgyptian and Collared Turtle Doves remain throughout the year inNorth Africa and Syria ; but the Common Turtle {T. auritiis), soabundant
. The survey of western Palestine. The fauna and flora of Palestine . nidification also pass further to the southwardin winter than do the others. Thus the migrating Fieldfare and Redwing,visiting regions north of the Thrush and the Blackbird, on their southwardmigration leave their more sedentary relatives behind. The Brambling,which passes the Chaffinch in Norway, leaves it also in Europe, andcrosses the Mediterranean every winter to the Barbary States. TheEgyptian and Collared Turtle Doves remain throughout the year inNorth Africa and Syria ; but the Common Turtle {T. auritiis), soabundant in these countries in summer, never leaves a straggler behind InNovember, and yet in spring advances 1,000 miles nearer to the Polethan they do. FAMILY, Caprumilgus europceus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I., p. 346. Night-jar. Visits Palestine in spring and summer. Not noticed In winter. The Nightjar inhabits Europe and North-western Asia in summer,retiring into Northern and Central Africa In winter. Eastward It hasbeen found in Persia and Turkestan. FlXi]. 4 CAPRlMULniJS TAMARICIS. JJoiiliarl liiip AJ-£S. Ss 166. CapriDmlgtis rnficoUis. Temm. Man. dOrn. i., p. 43S. Red-necked Nightjar. This Nightjar is only found ordinarily in South-western Europe andNorth-western Africa. It has straggled as far as England, and I haveseen a specimen in Jerusalem, which I have every reason to believe wasshot close to the city. 167. Caprvmilgiis tamaricis. Tristram. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1S64,p. 170. Plate obtained this bird, till then unknown, both at the northern andsouthern ends of the Dead Sea in the month of January, at Ain Feshkahand at Jebel Usdum. It must therefore be a permanent resident in thismost desolate region. In form and size it somewhat resembles C. asiaiicus^but is larger. C. rufigena. Smith, from South Africa, corresponds in size,but from both of them it differs decidedly in colouration and markings. Ihave seen a specimen in the collection of the late Rev. Dr. Hers
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