66 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



Entire lengtli 11 inches; culmen 0"7 ; wing, carpns to 

 tip, 5'5 ; tarsns TS. 



Eig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part ix. 



3. TuRDUS Musicus, Linn. Song-Tlirush. 



Tlie Song-Tlirusli is tolerably abundant in Egypt, espe- 

 cially in the Delta, and, according to Hemprich and Ehren- 

 berg, is met with in Nubia, where, however, it is of rare 

 occurrence. I believe that it occasionally remains in the 

 country to breed ; for I have shot it twice near Benisooef at 

 the end of March. 



Upper parts dark olive-brown, the head slightly shaded 

 with golden brown ; wings dark brown, the feathers washed 

 with golden brown on the outer webs, the median and greater 

 wing-coverts tipped witli buff; tail similar in colour to the 

 top of the head ; lores, eyebrow, throat, crop, and sides of 

 the throat and chest buff; centre of the chest and abdomen 

 white : sides of the throat and chest and sides of the bodv 

 spotted with dark brown ; under wing-coverts ochre ; beak 

 brown, shaded with yellow towards the base of the lower 

 mandible ; legs brownish flesh-colour ; irides brown. 



Entire length 8"8 inches ; culmen 0"7 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4"7 ; tarsus 1"3. 



Fig. Sharpe and Dresser, B. of Eur. part v. 



4. TuRDUs MERXiLA, L. Blackbird. 



The Blackbird comes to Egypt in the winter, but is not 

 common in the country. I have met with it on two occasions 



