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the city was called Kahira^ (the "vexatious" or 

 " unlucky "). Kahira softened, soon became Cairo. 

 The Raven, as already stated, is to be seen from 

 time to time, and especially where the cliffs come 

 down close to the river. It is so similar to the 

 ordinary Raven that it is only after the feathers of 

 the head and neck have been worn for some time 

 that the brown look appears which has given rise 

 to the specific name of the Brown-necked Raven. 

 Shelley says it nests in date-palm trees, but the 

 only nests I myself have seen have been in the 

 lofty cliffs of Deir-el-Bahari and Abu Feada, and 

 again in some of the ruins of temples, at Karnak 

 for instance. There is, further, one more Raven, 

 the Abyssinian, which is smaller by some three 

 inches than the Brown-necked, but it is very 

 similar in all other respects. 



^ Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant. 



