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LIST OF MAMMALS OBTAINED BY THE HON. N. CHARLES 

 ROTHSCHILD AND THE HON. ERANCIS R. HENLEY IN 

 THE NATRON VALLEY, EGYPT. 



By W. E. De WINTON. 



{With topographical description and field-notes by the collectors.') 



(Plates VII., VIII.) 



DESCRIPTION OF THE WADY NATRON. 



" rpHE Wady Natron lies to tlie west of the Nile delta. It is about twenty-two 



J- miles long, and runs in a north-westerly direction, its south-eastern end 



being about forty miles north-west of Cairo. The valley is never more than live 



miles wide ; the low undulating hills running on each side of it are covered 



Wady Natkon, fkom Zaquio. 



