48 Mr. E. C. Taylor — Eyppt Revisited, 



767. Alauda gulgula. 



A. ccelivox, Swinhoe, comes nearer^ I find, to A. malabarica 

 (no. 768) than to this, and has a pointed though scarcely elon- 

 gated crest, while that of A. gulgula is the same as in A. ar- 

 vensis. 



769. Galerita cristata. 



In my Catalogue of the Birds in the Asiatic Society's Mu- 

 seum at Calcutta (1849), 1 placed G. chendoola as a difi'erent 

 species from G. cristata. This arose from having received an 

 Algerian specimen as G. cristata, which proves to be G. macro- 

 rhyncha, Tristram (Ibis, 1859, p. 57) ; G. randoni, Loche (Rev. 

 Zool. 1860, p. 150, pi. xi. fig. 2). 



Galerita boysi, nobis, proves to be a good species. Ex- 

 amples from Lahore have the wing 3*5 in., and ihe rest in pro- 

 portion ; otherwise resembling G. cr'istata. 

 [To be continued.] 



II. — Egypt Revisited. By E. Cavendish Taylor, M.A., F.Z.S. 



I ARRIVED at Alexandria, in Egypt, on the morning of Decem- 

 ber 15th, 1863, just ten years and one month after my first 

 visit to that country, some ornithological notes on which were 

 published in the first volume of 'The Ibis,' that for 1859. I 

 found Alexandria very much increased, improved, and European- 

 ized during the decade that had elapsed since I had last seen it; 

 but European influences seemed to have afi'ected the climate 

 also, for it rained the greater part of the time I stayed there, 

 and the streets were filled with deep, black mud, such as I have 

 never seen in any other town except Tunis. From Alexandria 

 I went to Cairo by railway in seven hours. On my first visit, 

 before the railway existed, the same journey took me, by boat, 

 seven days. Cairo has resisted European innovations, and did 

 not seem to me in the least changed. During the six weeks 

 that I remained there, I devoted myself to looking up the 

 ornithology of the immediate neighbourhood, and I got a good 

 many birds worth having, especially three specimens of Falco 



