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NUMENIUS ARCUATUS. 



Is not uncommon in Egypt during the winter months. 



Tringoides hypoleuca. 



Is constant all the way to the Second Cataract, and beyond. 



Tringa temminckii. 



Is plentiful about Alexandria and the Delta. I did not see it 

 above Cairo. 



Tringa ochropus. 



Tringa calidris. 



The Green Sandpiper was seen in flocks in the fields near 

 Cairo during the subsidence of the river in November; and 

 solitary individuals were often met with by the sides of pools 

 and canals all the way to the Second Cataract. T. calidris was 

 plentiful about Alexandria in February. Both the Common 

 and Jack Snipe were occasionally seen all the way up to the 

 confines of Nubia ', and a few specimens of the Painted Snipe 

 {Rhynchaa bengalensis) were shot by some friends near Siout. 

 A Fulica, apparently of the same size and colour as F. atra, with 

 a white crest, was several times seen on the river between Cairo 

 and Thebes. I procured several specimens of the Stilt {Himan- 

 topus melanopterus) above Cairo. It is not common. 



Phcenicopterus antiquorum. 



Several flocks were seen in Egypt. According toBunsen, the 

 Egyptians took their idea of red from the Flamingo, and accord- 

 ingly drew it when they meant to express that colour. 



Anser albifrons. 



Is the most common Goose on the Nile, and usually seen in 

 vast flocks at daybreak, returning to the shallows from feeding 

 all night in the wheat-fields. This species decreases southwards, 

 and is rarely seen beyond the marsh at Edfoo. The young 

 birds have a black line around the base of the bill, and no bars 

 on the breast and belly. 



The White-fronted and also, seemingly, the Grey Goose were 

 domesticated by the early Egyptians. There is a characteristic 

 delineation in the British Museum, where the steward, in the 

 presence of the owner, is counting geese and ducks, whilst 



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