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formed almost without exception in the winter and 

 spring. 



The most likely place for a future investigator to get new 

 facts is Lake Bourlos (as yet unvisited by any English 

 ornithologist), which lies between Alexandria and Damietta. 

 It is forbidden to shoot on Menzaleh, and Mareotis and the 

 Faioum have been pretty well worked. Indeed the Faioum 

 has been visited by at least four collectors. Going how- 

 ever as late as we did, I was sanguine that we should drop 

 on something new, and if I had not been unwell I have no 

 doubt I should have done a good deal there; as it was, we 

 saw enough to repay us for our journey. Let me recom- 

 mend no one to go the Faioum without a filter, as the water 

 is disgustingly dirty. For getting about the lake a " Una " 

 boat* would be the best thing to bring, as punts, canoes, and 

 indiarubber boats are too small. 



** Mr. Broadway of Cairo has two, but he objects to letting them out 

 except for the Nile trip. 



