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CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



Having reviewed in the foregoing part of this work all 

 the different species of birds that have been included in the 

 Egyptian lists by former writers, as well as those that have come 

 under my own observation, it will, perhaps, be of service briefly 

 to determine the value of the evidence on which they have 

 been inserted, and the true claim to specific distinction of 

 the more closely allied species. In the former pages I have 

 included over 350 birds as having some feasible claim to be 

 considered inhabitants of the Egyptian district, bounded 

 on the north by the Mediterranean, on the south by the Second 

 Cataract, and on the east and west by the Arabian and 

 Libyan deserts. 



Earn. TuRDiD^. — Among the Thrushes, Tardus viscivorus 

 has probably never occiured in Egypt ; for no traveller on the 

 Nile more recent than Riippell records it from that country. 

 T. torquatus, I have little doubt, is met with in Lower Egypt. 

 The true Pycnonotus nigricans (Vieill.) never could have come 

 to Egypt, as stated by Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 399). 

 The bird referred to by him is doubtless P. xanthopygius, the 

 Palestine form, differing only from P. nigricans in the absence 

 of a red eyelid ; and for that reason I have included it in my 

 work under the name of P. xanthopygius. 



Fam. Stlviid^. — Saxicola philothamna has almost crept 

 into Egyptian lists on account of Mr. E. C. Taylor's S. erg- 

 thropygia having been referred to that species ; but the latter 

 bird is apparently referable to S. mwsta, Licht. S. xantJio- 

 melana is an undoubtedly good species, with which S. FinscJii 



