12 Bird Notes from the Nile. 



are following their leader towards their 

 summer or winter quarters. 



Flock after flock of swallows in the 

 autumn may be seen " flying, flying south," 

 away from the cold and into the warm 

 weather, and again in the spring the north- 

 ward-bound birds re-appear, carrying good 

 news of approaching summer and sun- 

 shine. Then there are all the finches and 

 warblers, and many other small birds, 

 that pay a yearly visit to the sunny South, 

 as well as those rarer kinds which are 

 driven, by exceptionally severe weather, 

 to make a temporary home in the land 

 of the sun. Occasionally, some tropical 

 bird may perhaps be tempted north in 

 search of food. Among these are the 

 lovely little yellow - breasted Sun -birds, 

 which are met with in Nubia, and, I 

 believe, have sometimes been seen as far 

 north as Aswan. Golden Orioles are 

 visitors on the Nile, and brilliant blue 

 Rollers, too, we saw in the Ghizeh gardens, 

 going to their more Northern homes in 

 Syria, Spain, and Italy. 



The low sand banks in the river, or 

 some lonely place in the desert, are nightly 



