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SANDGROUSE
Volume 26 (2) Autumn 2004
Editors
   Guy M. Kirwan & Michael Blair

Features Editor
   Situation Vacant

Assistant Editor
   Dawn Balmer

Editorial Committee
   Paul Goriup,
   Mike Jennings,
   Rodney Martins
   Peter L.
   Meininger
   & 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
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
NEWS AND INFORMATION
compiled by GUY M. KIRWAN
PAPERS AND NOTES
 87 A checklist of bird species held in seven important collections in Tehran A. KHALEGHIZADEH
94 The Syrian Wetland Expedition 2004: a summar D. MURDOCH, I. ANDREWS AND R. HOFLAND
105 The taxonomic position of the Afghan Scrub Sparrow Passer (moabiticus) yati G. M. KIRWAN
112 An ornithological study of the Azerbaijani Caspian coast, islands and regions of oil production E. SULTANOV
127 Breeding habitat of the Pale Rock Sparrow Carpospiza brachydactyla in the Mount Lebanon range C. C. KNIGHT AND C. M. BEALE
132 Biometric and plumage variation in African Collared Dove Streptopelia roseogrisea and Collared Dove S. decaocto at Eilat, Israel R. YOSEPH, M. RYDBERG-HEDAEN, N. ZELNOVA AND K. MEYROM
The first See-see Partridge Ammoperdix griseogularis in Armenia V. ANANIAN
139 Trumpeter Finches Bucanetes githagineus in Kuwait: feeding juveniles or courtship-feeding? P. J. COWAN, C. W. PILCHER AND S. T. SPENCER
140 Notes on the behaviour of the Golden-winged Grosbeak Rhynchostruthus socotranus K. GEDEON AND V. NEUMANN
141 First confirmed breeding record of Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler Locustella certhiola in Kyrgyzstan T. ROTH AND G. JALILOVA
143 A mystery Phylloscopus warbler in Kuwait N. CLEERE, D. KELLY AND C. W. T. PILCHER
The first Cape Gannet Sula capensis in Oman and the Middle East H. ERIKSEN
148 An unusual Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita in the western Tien Shan, Kazakhstan E. I. GAVRILOV, A. E. GAVRILOV AND A. V. KOVOLENKO
149 Some corrections to, and comments on, recent papers on Iranian bird distributions K. KRATOCHWILL AND G. M. KIRWAN
The first Black Bush Robins Cercotrichus podobe in Jordan - a prelude to colonisation? A. GRIEVE, F. KHOURY AND K. NASSER
The first Purple Gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio in Saudi Arabia B. S. MEADOWS
Little Green Bee-eater Merops orientalis taken by Hadoram Shirihai at Eilat, Israel, in spring 2002

 

154 The first Bewick's Swan Cygnus columbianus in eastern Saudi Arabia B. S. MEADOWS AND G. MUSALAME
155 Notes on three rare raptors in the Anzali wetlands, Iran A. KHALEGHIZADEH
156

PROFILE
Phillip Andrew Lassey D. I. M. WALLACE

157 REVIEWS & RECENT LITERATURE
AROUND THE REGION
Compiled by DAWN BALMER AND KEITH BETTON

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