122 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 



Avocet, Common and Demoiselle Cranes ; and in the 

 second volume of Rossellini's " Monumenti Civili," there are 

 some capital plates which cannot fail to interest. My father 

 and I think they may be identified as follows : — 



Night Heron. 



Pintail Duck. Ruddy Shelduck. 

 Mallard. Teal. 

 Red-backed Shrike. Hoopoe. 

 Avocet. 

 Dove. 



White-fronted Goose. Sacred Ibis. 

 Pelican. Ostrich. Young Ibises in 

 nest (see antea). 



In Vol. I. a Geroiiticiis, probably G. coinatus, Ehr., will be 

 found at plates XXXI. and CLV. There is also a figure 

 in Wilkinson's plate LXXV, which I refer with very little 

 doubt to Lcptoptilus cnuneuifer, Cuv.* 



I have mentioned elsewhere that the Red-breasted Goose 

 is to be considered a bird of Egypt. I will conclude this 

 chapter by enumerating a few others which put in a 

 claim. 



First. Captain Shelley originally admitted the Eleonora 

 Falcon ("Ibis," 1871, p. 42), and I think it should be rein- 

 stated, as my father considers that the figure of a young 

 male Falco gracilis (A. and L. Brehm) killed near Cairo in 

 September, 185 1, (Archiv fur die Ornithologie, 1856, p. 194,) 

 is undoubtedly nothing else. 



Second. There is in the Norwich Museum an adult 

 Accipitcr spJicmiriis marked " Egypt," but I greatly doubt 

 the correctness of this locality. It was obtained from a 

 dealer named Warwick. 



* A Marabou Stork, probably this species, is believed to have 

 occurred at Ajmokra in Eastern Algeria. (Zoologist, 2591.) 



