550 Capt. A. W. Boyd on Birds of the [Ibis, 



Merops persicus. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater. 



[ saw none till April 29 at Suez, where there was a flock, 

 and on the following da}' there were many by the railway 

 between Suez and Ismailia. 



In 1915 at Cairo I saw M. persicus considerably earlier 

 than M. apiaster, and believe that usually it is tlie earlier 

 to arrive. I never saw the Green Bee-eater (M. viridis) 

 east of Cairo. 



Upupa epops. Hoopoe. 



From April 2 to 29 on a number of occasions I saw odd 

 birds passing at Suez and Port Tewfik, on one occasion at 

 some distance out in the desert ; odd birds were returning 

 at Komani and Mohammedia at the end of August. 

 I believe that all these were typical Hoopoes passing 

 to and from Europe rather than the local subspecies, 

 U. e. major. 



Asio accipitrinus. Short-eared Owl. 



On Nov, 5 and 7 I saw a single bird at the same 

 spot near the railway half-way between Port Said and 

 Mohammedia. 



G-yps fulvus. Griffon Vulture. 



On June 5 I got within a few yards of one which was on a 

 sand-hill in the desert a few miles east of Kubri. 



On the north road I saw strangely few : one at Katia flying 

 over the oasis on Aug. 12, and at Mazar, one on Nov. 28, 

 and five on Dec. 13 circling at a great height over the camp. 

 The Turks in their retirement had left numbers of dead 

 horses and draught-bullocks by the track which, one might 

 have expected, would have attracted them. 



Neophron percnopterus. Egyptian Vulture. 



Nut uncommon along the Canal from Ismailia to Suez, 

 but I never saw a single bird at Kantara or anywhere east 

 of that place in the Sinai Peninsula. 



Circus aeruginosus. Marsh-Harrier. 



A single bird at Mohammedia on Sept. 1. 



