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the city was called Kahira’ (the “vexatious” or 
“unlucky ”). Kahira softened, soon became Cairo. 
The Raven, as already stated, is to be seen from 
time to time, and especially where the cliffs come 
down close to the river. It is so similar to the 
ordinary Raven that it is only after the feathers of 
the head and neck have been worn for some time 
that the brown look appears which has given rise 
to the specific name of the Brown-necked Raven. 
Shelley says it nests in date-palm trees, but the 
only nests I myself have seen have been in the 
lofty cliffs of Deir-el-Bahari and Abu Feada, and 
again in some of the ruins of temples, at Karnak 
for instance. There is, further, one more Raven, 
the Abyssinian, which is smaller by some three 
inches than the Brown-necked, but it is very 
similar in all other respects. 
1 Curzon’s Monasteries of the Levant. 
