AND LOWER EGYPT. 55 



I found again at Siout the same kinds of birds 

 which have established themselves in the other 

 cities of Egypt, that is to say, kites, sparrow- 

 hawks, percnopteres, very tame turtle-doves (a 

 pair of these birds built their nest on the shelf of 

 a little window of the apartment which I occu- 

 pied), sparrows still more tame, for they come 

 into the houses, penetrate into the chambers, and 

 almost perch upon the inhabitants, to seek for 

 something to eat ; and, finally, a multitude of 

 lapwings. All these birds formed at Siout a se- 

 cond population, not less numerous, but far 

 more peaceable than the other* 



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