316 BIED8 OF EGYPT. 



Ostrich a few days' journey distant from Cairo. Formerly it 

 was often referred to as occuri'ing there. Pocock states that 

 it inhabited the hilly desert to the south-west of Alexandria. 

 Sonnini often saw fresh tracks in the desert of Bahireh ; and 

 Minutoli observed flocks of from ten to fifteen individuals 

 on the route from Alexandria to Suvah and Dernah." 



