Bird Notes from the Nile. 3 



traps, as in the days of Seti and of 

 Rameses. 



But Egypt is not only an ideal land to the 

 antiquarian, the historian, and the artist-^: 

 it is also one to the ornithologist, or even 

 to the simple, unscientific bird-lovers who 

 take their pleasure in watching and 

 studying the habits and homes of their 

 feathered friends. 



I have, with but very few exceptions, 

 limited these notes to those birds we have 

 seen which are residents in Upper Egypt, 

 above Luxor, and in Nubia, and which 

 other travellers in the same country may 

 also see for themselves. Our visit to 

 Khartoum was unfortunately too short 

 to give time for making any but the 

 most hurried notes of the birds we saw 

 there, on the Blue Nile, and also on 

 the White Nile above Omdurman. I 

 have only mentioned a few among the 

 many that are to be found in that part 

 of the Sudan. 



During the winter we stayed at the 

 hotel at Aswan ; we had, however, a fixed 

 camp for several weeks on the edge of the 

 desert, the western side of the river, 



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