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■ — once in the Delta, and once near Benisooef at the end of 

 March, when I saw a pair together. 



Male. Entire phxmage black ; beak yellow ; legs and 

 irides dark brown. 



Female. Upper parts brown ; chin greyish white, passing 

 into deep ferruginous brown on the upper part of the breast ; 

 remainder of the underparts dusky brown. Beak dark 

 brown, with yellowish-brown edges. 



Entire length 10 inches ; culmen 1 ; wing, carpus to tip, 5 ; 

 tarsus 1'3. 



Fig. Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. part x. 



5. TuRDUs TORQUATUS, L. Bifig-Ouzel. 



Keyserling and Blasius state that this bird comes into 

 Egypt in the winter; and von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. 

 p. 387) says that a naturalist in Cairo informed him that he 

 had often killed it in Lower Egypt. 



A broad white gorget on the breast ; remainder of the 

 plumage dull black with brown edges to the feathers ; plu- 

 mage darkest on the back of the neck and chest, and lightest 

 about the quills. Legs brown ; beak yellowish brown ; 

 irides dark brown. 



Entire length 12 inches; culmen 1 ; wing, carpus to tip, 

 5*5 ; tarsus 1*5. 



Fig. Sharpe & Dresser, B. of Eur. part x. 



6. Pycnonotus ARSiNoii (Licht.). White-vented Bulbul. 

 Von Heuglin observes (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 379) that this 



bird has been met with as far down the Nile as Central 

 Egypt. It appeai-s, however, to be of rare occurrence within 



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