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desert side ; and Pandion haliaetus, Caprimulgus isabelUnus, 

 Chettusia Villotcei, ^ffialitis peciiarius, Pelecanus crispus, and 

 Larui ichtkyaetus, equally distributed, or most plentiful on 

 the cultivated side of Birket el Korn ; and among the com- 

 moner birds, to complete a collection, the Curlew, Black- 

 tailed Godwit, Moor-Hen, Spotted Crake, Water- Rail, Little 

 Grebe, Cormorant, Tufted Duck, GadwaU, and Spoonbill, 

 may be all easily obtained in the Fayoom. 



I had intended to spend a month in the Delta ; but this 

 tour was cut short by my getting a slight attack of marsh- 

 fever near Damietta, where, however, I was long enough to 

 see that the reedy lake close by should not be visited later 

 than February for Snipe-shooting ; for, although I did one 

 day get twenty couple, and found RufFs and Redshanks very 

 plentiful, stUl it was far inferior to what I had known it earlier 

 in the season. However, the ornithologist will find a greater 

 variety of birds ; and I was very glad to meet with a small and 

 rare Warbler, Calamodyta melanopogon, extremely abundant 

 in the thick sedge, also plenty of Acrocephalus stentoritis, 

 although by the end of March it had not begun to utter its 

 loud love-notes, fi-om which it derives its name. 



I shall now end my journal, which I have purposely con- 

 fined within narrow limits, as my sole object in publishing it 

 is to give a general notion of the ornithological sport to be 

 obtained during the ordinary traveller's visit to the mag- 

 nificent country of Hgypt, which yearly attracts more visitors, 

 most of whom become interested in the rich variety of birds 

 which may there be collected. I have likewise given a slight 

 sketch of the geology, as the Nile-tour allows so much time 

 for reflection, and the geology of a country teaches one more 



