LIST OF BIRDS 
ALTHOUGH the scope of this work is only to point 
out, by pictures, to the unlearned what birds he 
will most likely see during a winter in Egypt, yet 
I have felt that it would be wise to give a list of 
all the birds, as far as known; for some, turning to 
these pages, may desire to learn if some one or 
other bird which they did not see amongst my 
necessarily limited selection of pictured birds, was 
an Egyptian bird or not. In the preparation of this 
list, it goes without saying, I have been constantly 
indebted to that book, 4 Handbook to the Birds 
of Egypt, which, published so long ago as 1872 by 
Captain C. E. Shelley, still remains the one classic on 
this subject, and I have adopted, as far as possible, 
his names for all the birds mentioned. In addition, 
year after year, some small knowledge has accumu- 
lated of new birds, not known in that day to visit 
this country, and I am particularly indebted to Mr. 
M. J. Nicoll, assistant-director of the Government 
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