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SANDGROUSE
Volume 19 (1)

Editor
   Guy M. Kirwan

Features Editor
   Derek Harvey

Assistant Editor
   Ian J. Andrews

Editorial Committee
   Duncan J. Brooks,
   Mike Evans, Ben Hoare,
   Mike Jennings,
   Rodney Martins
   & Dr. Stephen Newton

Photographic Editor
   Paul Doherty

Design &Production
   Harry I. Scott

Identification Consultants
   C. G. Bradshaw,
   Arnoud B. van den Berg
   & Steve Madge
OSME NEWS
NEWS AND INFORMATION
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
FEATURES
  8    Observations of Dunn's Larks Eremalauda dunni in the Ramlat al-Sab'atayn, Republic of Yemen C. D. R. HEARD AND GUY M. KIRWAN, on behalf of the OSME SOUTH YEMEN EXPEDITION
 12    Birding in the Göksu Delta, south Turkey HILARY WELCH
 16 PROFILE
Major Michael Gallagher MBE DEREK HARVEY
 18 PHOTOSPOT
White-eyed and Sooty Gulls on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia DR. GRAHAM R. LOBLEY
PAPERS AND NOTES
The birds of the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, Egyptian Red Sea RICHARD HOATH, DR. DEREK RUSSELL, RAFIK KHALIL AND DINA KHALIL
 30 A list of bird specimens held in the Robert's College, Bebek (Istanbul, Turkey) collection, with some comments on Mathey-Dupraz (1920-24) GUY M. KIRWAN
Five new bird species in Bahrain MICHAL SKAKUJ AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK
 45 Breeding birds of the Taurus foothills bordering the Göksu Delta, south Turkey JAN VAN DER WINDEN AND VINCENT VAN DEN BERK
 51 Preliminary observations of the incubation and covey behaviour of Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata macqueenii FRÉDÉRIC LAUNAY, RONALD A. LOUGHLAND AND ELENA MUKHINA
Birds new to Qatar BOB NATION, HELEN NATION AND ANDREW HOOPER
 63 The second-calendar year plumage of Crab Plover Dromas ardeola MICHAL SKAKUJ, ERIK HIRSCHFELD, JAN LONTKOWSKI AND TADEUSZ STAWARCZYK
 65 Graceful Prinia Prinia gracilis colonisation of Kuwait C. W. T. PILCHER, W. A. STUART AND S. T. SPENCER
Sooty Falcon Falco concolor,
Hawar Island, Bahrain
taken by Dr. Mike Hill

OSME is grateful for sponsership
from Julian Francis towards the cost
of printing the colour photographs
inside this issue.

The first Red-fronted Serin Serinus pusillus in Jordan FARES KHOURY
 68 New information on the breeding biology of Cretzschmar's Bunting Emberiza caesia PETER CASTELL
 70 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
 
AROUND THE REGION
P. DAVIDSON AND G. M. KIRWAN

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