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351. CoLYMBUs SEPTENTRioNALis, Linn. Bed-throated Diver. 



Von Heuglin (Syst. Ueb. p. 68) mentions that he once 

 observed this species in Lower Egypt in the winter. 



Summer plumage. — Forehead, sides of the head, and neck 

 slate-colour, with a ferruginous brown patch down the centre 

 of the throat ; back of the head and hinder part of the 

 neck black, streaked with white ; remainder of the upper 

 parts dusky, more or less spotted with white ; underparts 

 white ; beak and legs black, the latter tinted with olive ; 

 irides red. 



Entire length 22'5 inches; culmen 2; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 11-5 ; tarsus 2' 5. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 395. 



Order STRUTHIONES. 

 Pam. STRUTHIONID^. 



352. Struthio camelus, L. Ostrich. 



A perfect monograph of the Ostrich has been published 

 by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub in the ' Vogel Ost-Afrika's,' and 

 I translate from thence the following particulars as to its 

 occurrence in Egypt : — " They are no longer found on the 

 plains of El Mograh, between Cairo and Suez, where Burck- 

 hardt met with wild Ostriches in 1816. Von Heughn looked 

 in vain for it both on the Libyan plains and in Central Egypt ; 

 but a very trustworthy hunter, Prince Halim Pacha, assured 

 liim that he had found fresh-disturbed breeding-places of the 



