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canoed through a series of lagoons and cauos to the Diquc, 

 the name of a miserable hut on the banks of the Magdalena, 

 where, under a shed smothered in a plantation of Plantain, 

 we were destined to wait, eaten up by mosquitoes, for nearly a 

 week. There was not water enough in the river to allow the 

 steamer to come down. At last, to our great relief, we heard 

 her whistle, and ten minutes afterwards we were rushing down 

 the stream on our way to the coast, while wondering passengers 

 speculated as to what could have brought two Englishmen to 

 the slopes of the Andes and the forests of the Magdalena. 

 [To be continued.] 



X. — Contributions to the Ornithology of Egypt. 

 By Captain G. E. Shelley, F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &c. 



[Continued from page 54.] 



74. RuTiciLLA PHffiNicuRA (L.). Common Redstart. 

 Plentifully distributed throughout Egypt and Nubia. J shot 



it in the Delta in the beginning of February; but it is not 

 abundant before the end of March. 



75. RuTiciLLA TiTHYS (ScopoK). Black Redstart. 

 According to Mr. S. S. Allen (Ibis, 1861, p. 237) this bird 



arrives from its winter quarters in the south in April ; but 

 Mr. E. C. Taylor (Ibis, 1867, p. 61) says that it is "resident 

 in small numbers throughout the winter, frequenting ruined 

 baildings.^^ I never met with this species myself. 



76. Erithacus rubecula (L.). Robin. 

 Plentiful in the Delta. 



77. Cyanecula suECiCA (L.). Blue-throated Warbler. 



I believe that there is only one species of Blue-throated War- 

 bler in Egypt ; for although some specimens have a white spot 

 on the throat, and some a rufous one, I have obtained others 

 with this spot half red and half white. It is an extremely 

 abundant bird in some parts of the Delta, and is very generally 

 distributed througliout Egypt and Nubia, wherever the vegeta- 

 tion grows to the height of several feet. 



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