528 ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 



106. FULICA ATRA. Coot. 



In prodigious numbers, both on Lake Birket-el-Karun and 

 Lake Menzaleh. 



107. ANAS BOSCHAS. Common Mallard. 



Single birds were observed on both the above lakes, but 

 nowhere else. 



108. ANAS QUERQUEDULA. Garganey Teal. 



Several specimens were on various occasions met with at 

 Lake Birket-el-Karun, and a paired couple on an island near 

 the Barrage; otherwise these ducks were nowhere observed. 



109. SPATULA CLYPEATA. Shoveller. 



Very scarce on Lake Birket-el-Karun and on the Nile; on 

 Lake Menzaleh pretty common. 



110. FULIGULA NYROCA. White-eyed Duck. 



We found these ducks in astonishing numbers at many 

 places on Lake Birket-el-Karun, where the shore was covered 

 with high reeds. On the Nile and on Lake Menzaleh they 

 were no longer to be met with by the middle of March. 



111. FULIGULA CRISTATA. Tufted Duck. 



Isolated individuals were observed on Lake Birket-el- 

 Karun, nowhere else. 



112. LARUS MICHAHELLESII. Yellow-legged Herring-Gull. 



The commonest Gull of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas. In 

 February seen everywhere and all day long throughout the 

 Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the great lagoons, but 

 never met with on the Nile. 



113. LARUS FUSCUS. Herring-Gull.* 



Local in the Adriatic and among the Greek islands; rather 

 * [" Heringsmove." L. aryentatus?'] 



