SIX months' bird collecting in EGYPT. I95 



151. Black-tailed Godwit, Lhiiosa cegocephala (Linn.); 

 ? " Bigueka Sultani." 



At the Faioum we got one out of a small flock : it was 

 still in winter plumage. I saw this flock about at the mouth 

 of the canal as late as June nth. This was the only one 

 we shot ; and I have some doubt whether Filliponi really- 

 intended the above name for this species, I suspect one 

 was never got so late before in Egypt. 



152. Redshank, Totaims calidris (Linn). 

 Rather common in the Delta. 



153. Greenshank, Totaiius cancsccns (Gmel.) 



We did not shoot more than two or three, yet it is far 

 from uncommon, and probably resident. It was seen at 

 the Faioum on the 2nd of June.* 



154. Golden Plover, CJiaradrius pliLvialis, Linn. 



Plentiful on the 20th of January at El Badalki, near 

 Damietta. One flock must have numbered three or four 

 hundred birds ; but we did not shoot any, and never fell in 

 with them again. 



** A painstaking naturalist tells me that Greenshanks are so tame 

 in the breeding season in Scotland, that he has twice stroked the 

 dam upon her eggs, which in one case were eight in number. A 

 Redshank's " nest " has been taken at Hickling in Norfolk with eight 

 eggs, and it was surmised by the finder that two birds had laid to- 

 gether. Another was taken at Wells with seven. 



