Editor
   Guy M. Kirwan

Features Editor
   Derek Harvey

Assistant Editor
   Ian J. Andrews

Editorial Committee
   Mike Evans, Mike Jennings,       
   Rodney Martins
   & Dr. Stephen Newton

Photographic Editor
   Paul Doherty

Design &Production
   Harry I. Scott

Identification Consultants
   Arnoud B. van den Berg
   & Steve Madge

      FEATURES
10      Observations on Long-billed Pipit Anthus similis in
             Jerusalem
14      The Zaranik Experience

18  PHOTOSPOT

22  PROFILE
          Dr. Abdulaziz H. Abuzinada

      PAPERS AND NOTES
24      The birds of Thumamah, Central Province, Saudi Arabia
53      Notes on the coastal birds of Libya, July 1993
61      Spring raptor movements at Gebel el Zeit, Egypt
64      The first Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum in Egypt
66      The first Woodlark Lullula arborea in Saudi Arabia
68      The first White-crowned Black Wheatear Oenanthe
             leucopyga in Turkey
69      The first Dusky Warbler Phylloscopus fuscatus in Egypt

70  REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE

76  AROUND THE REGION