SIX months' bird collecting in EGYPT. Ill 



Of species previously supposed to be winter visitors, we got 

 the Sanderling and some others in May, and the Avocet, 

 Little Stint, Pigmy Curlew, and Lesser Tern in June ; and 

 I may add the Little Bittern in the same month, about 

 which nothing certain was known. 



The range of the Olivaceous Warbler and the Scissorbill 

 was extended north, and that of the Caspian Tern, White - 

 winged Tern, Linnet, and one or two other species, south. 



The right of admission was also confirmed to sundry 

 doubtful birds, and I regard this as one of the best results 

 of our researches, such as Baillon's Crake and Montague's 

 Harrier, which were only admitted into his work by 

 Captain Shelley on sufferance. 



All the birds which we got and he did not get I have 

 marked in my list with a star (*). For convenience sake 

 I will here give a list of them :* Sociable Vulture, Bonelli's 

 Eagle, Honey Buzzard, Montague's Harrier, Grey Wagtail, 

 Black Redstart, Rock Swallow {?), Orphean Warbler, English 

 Swift, Reed Warbler, Great Sedge Warbler, Baillon's Crake, 

 Dunlin, Sanderling, Marbled Duck, Eared Grebe, White- 

 winged Tern, Lesser Tern, Lesser Pelican, African Cor- 

 morant, and twenty-second and last, the rare Lesser White- 

 fronted Goose. 



Eighteen hundred and seventy-five was reckoned a cold 

 spring, and a backward summer. There was no KJianiseen 

 (the hot south wind). Li spite of this I noticed some very 

 early migratory arrivals ; for instance the Egyptian Swift 

 { Cypselus pallidus) was seen on February 14th ;f others, on 

 the other hand, came later than the time given for them in 

 the "Birds of Egypt," as, for example, Tiirtur isabellina, 



^ All but three are mduded in the " Birds of Egypt." 



f Mr. E. C. Taylor tells me that he does not consider that Cypselus 

 pallidus is a migrant. 



