ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
FROM 
AEE. Ea. 
Kieyrr, up to the Nubian frontier, and Palestine were the 
countries that I travelled through and investigated to the 
best of my ability. It is, however, no exhaustive account of 
their faunas that is now presented to the reader, but a simple 
statement of my observations. 
The task I have undertaken may be divided into two 
sections—the first being a list of all the species killed either 
by my fellow travellers or myself, with my remarks concern- 
ing them ; the second a collection of notes relating to the 
birds which we undoubtedly saw but failed to secure. I 
ought, however, to begin by saying that the journey took 
place at a time when many of our migrants had already left 
their winter-quarters, a fact that will account to naturalists 
for the absence of a string of species which one would cer- 
tainly expect to find in Egypt during the winter months. 
In the enumeration of the birds observed I have followed 
Brehm’s system, and have only had to insert five species that 
are not included in his ‘ Thierleben.’ 
