LIST OF BIRDS 



Although the scope of this work is only to point 

 out, by pictures, to the unlearned what birds he 

 will most likely see during a winter in Egypt, yet 

 I have felt that it would be wise to give a list of 

 all the birds, as far as known ; for some, turning to 

 these pages, may desire to learn if some one or 

 other bird which they did not see amongst my 

 necessarily limited selection of pictured birds, was 

 an Egyptian bird or not. In the preparation of this 

 list, it goes without saying, I have been constantly 

 indebted to that book, A Handbook to the Birds 

 of Egypt, which, published so long ago as 1872 by 

 Captain C. E. Shelley, still remains the one classic on 

 this subject, and I have adopted, as far as possible, 

 his names for all the birds mentioned. In addition, 

 year after year, some small knowledge has accumu- 

 lated of new birds, not known in that day to visit 

 this country, and I am particularly indebted to Mr. 

 M. J. Nicoll, assistant-director of the Government 



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