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WHILE Serving in Palestine, Captain Eric Hardy became the secretary of the Jerusalem Natural ists Club which had been founded for the troops by Middle east Command to stimulate interest in and co-ordinate the numerous inquiries in natural history that here already being pursued by a number of individual soldiers. One of the most notable activities of the Club was the listing of the birds of Palestine. The duty was undertaken because of the lack of a modern and authoritative account of Palestinian birds, and, besides their records of 364 species and 68 sub-species, work was also carried out on problems of migration. These, together with records of the most-used bird haunts, have -been put together by Captain Hardy in a privately printed list which, it is hoped, will be the forerunner of an authoritative and comprehensive handbook of Palestinian ornithology*.
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Birds of Palestine. Nature 158, 526 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158526a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158526a0