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THE IBIS. 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. III. No. 3. JULY 1921. 



XXI. — Field Notes on the Birds of Lower Egi/pt. By 

 W. Raw, M.B.O.U. With Contributions hy Colonol K. 

 Sparrow, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.B.O.U., and the Rev. 

 F. C. R. JouRDAiN, M.A., M.B.O.U.* 



113. Coracias garrulus garrulus. Roller. 



Numerous, passing tli rough Abu Zabaal from 8 August 

 onwards. Never observed there in the spring, but was 

 common at Kantara at the end of April 1919. 



114. Ceryle rudis rudis. Pied Kingfisher. 



Common and resident. I took a clutch of four effffs at 

 Abu Zabaal on 26 April, 1917, and another of five fresh 

 eggs at luchas on 12 May, 1918. The nesting-hole was 

 about four feet long in a bank overhanging a canal. 



[The only clutch taken was at Ayat on 11 May, 1910, and 

 consisted of four eggs sliglitly incubated. The nest-hole 



was in the Nile bank a few feet above the water. — R. S.1 



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* Continued from p. 264. 

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