528 ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
106. Futica atra. Coot. 
In prodigious numbers, both on Lake Birket-el-Karfin 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-Karfin, and a paired couple on an island near 
the Barrage; otherwise these ducks were nowhere observed. 
109. SparuLa cLyPEATA. Shoveller. 
Very scarce on Lake Birket-el-Karfn and on the Nile; on 
Lake Menzaleh pretty common. 
110, Furiguta wyroca. White-eyed Duck. 
We found these ducks in astonishing numbers at many 
places on Lake Birket-el-Kartin, 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. Funicuna cristata. Tufted Duck. 
Isolated individuals were observed on Lake Birket-el- 
Karin, 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 ruscus. Herring-Gull.* 
Local in the Adriatic and among the Greek islands; rather 
* (“ Heringsmove.” L, argentatus ?] 
