EGYPTIAN BIRDS 



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23. Desert Bullfinch or Trumpeter Finch ... 86 



24. Hooded Crow 90 



25. Egyptian Palm Doves . . . . . . 92 



26. Sand-Grouse ........ 94 



27. Hey's Sand-Partridge 100 



28. Quail 104 



29. Cream-coloured Courser . . . . . .108 



30. Green Plover or X,apwing 112 



31. Spur-winged Plover . . . . . . .114 



32. Black-headed Plover II6 



33. Ringed Plover . , 120 



34. Common Snipe . . . . . . .126 



35. Painted Snipe 128 



36. Avocet 130 



37. Sacred Ibis and Papyrus 132 



38. Cranes 136 



39. Spoonbills 140 



40. Black Stork 142 



41. Shoebill Stork 148 



42. Herons 152 



43. BufF-backed Heron 156 



44. Night Heron I60 



45. Flamingo ......... l62 



46. Studies of Gallinule I68 



47. Egyptian Geese . . . . . . .174 



48. Pintail, Teal;, and Shoveller Duck . . . . 178 



49. White Pelicans 186 



50. Cormorants . . . . . . . .192 



51. Lesser Black-backed Gull and Black-headed Gull . 198 



Also eleven line drawings in the text. 



