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| 87 | Habitat, distribution and breeding biology of Orphean Warbler Sylvia hortensis in south-east Bulgaria BOCA MILCHEV AND ANTON KOVACHEV | |
| 93 | Dhahran: an Arabian Gulf hotspot DR GRAHAM R. LOBLEY | |
| 101 | PHOTOSPOT Collared Pratincoles breeding in Oman HANNE AND JENS ERIKSEN |
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| 104 | The desert birds of south-west Asia P. J. COWAN | |
| 109 | The occurence of the North African subspecies of Mourning Wheatear Oenanthe lugens halophila in Egypt SHERIF M. BAHA EL DIN AND MINDY BAHA EL DIN | |
| 113 | Primary moult in Egyptian Nightjar Caprimulgus aegyptius on autumn migration in Kuwait GEORGE GREGORY | |
| 118 | A characterisation of the homozygous dark morph of Eleonora’s Falcon D. RISTOW, L. WITTE AND M. WINK |
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| Notes on the birds of Lebanon, autumn-winter 1999 COLIN BEALE | ||
| 125 | Shearwater passage along the north Cyprus coast ARTHUR STAGG | |
| The first Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis in Qatar and the Arabian Gulf PETER HELLYER |
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| The first Pink-backed Pelican Pelecanus rufescens in Jordan HADORAM SHIRIHAI, FARES KHOURY, SHARIF AL-JBOUR AND REUVEN YOSEF |
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| The first Fulvous Whistling-duck Dendrocygna bicolor in Yemen and the Middle East DAVID B. STANTON | ||
| The first Southern Pochard Netta erythrophthalma in Israel and the Western Palearctic HADORAM SHIRIHAI | ||
| First and second records of Crested Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Iran MARC DUQUET AND COLIN RICHARDSON | ||
| 135 | Comments on the buzzards of the Central Plateau, Turkey ALAN VITTERY | |
| 136 | Cannibalism and scavenging by wintering Coot Fulica atra REUVEN YOSEF | |
| The first Lesser Moorhen Gallinula angulata in Egypt and the Western Palearctic SEPPA HAAVISTO AND ANTE STRAND | ||
| 139 | Status of White-tailed Plover Chettusia leucura and Sociable Plover Chettusia gregaria in coastal north-west Saudi Arabia–an addendum to Kasparek (1992) BRIAN S. MEADOWS | |
| 141 | Physical characteristics of a hybrid Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica x House Martin Delichon urbica at Eilat, Israel REUVEN YOSEF | |
| Two new bird species in Kuwait N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER | ||
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Eagle Owl Bubo bubo, taken by Leo Boon at Eilat, Israel, January 1993. OSME is grateful for sponsorship from Subbuteo Natural History Books towards the cost of printing the colour photographs inside this issue. |
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| 145 | The first breeding record of Bearded Tit Panurus biarmicus in Syria JOSÉ TAVARES, PEDRO SÁ PESSOA AND FAUSTO BRITO E ABREU |
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| 146 | Notes on the breeding biology of Arabian Babbler Turdoides squamiceps and nestlings of Common Myna Acridotheres tristis PETER CASTELL | |
| 148 | PROFILE Geoff & Hilary Welch DEREK HARVEY |
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| 152 | REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE | |
| AROUND THE REGION CHRIS G. BRADSHAW AND GUY KIRWAN |
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