530 ORNITHOLOGICAL SKETCHES 
tine I saw a very large flock of Pelicans that came flying 
across the Dead Sea, and circled for a long time over a great 
fire that we had made to assist us in boar-hunting. These 
were the only Pelicans seen in Asia. 
120. PeLecanus crispus. Dalmatian Pelican. 
Seen singly or in large flocks on Lake Birket-el-Karin, 
but never observed elsewhere. 
The list of the birds obtained, measured, and therefore 
thoroughly studied is now complete, and it only remains 
to devote a few words to the species which were not killed. 
In enumerating these I will not follow any system, but will 
give the precedence to those about which I have most to 
record, 
To commence with the Waterfowl, most of the European 
geese and ducks had, as I have already said, returned to their 
homes when my journey in Africa began; and the sporting 
districts of Egypt are, moreover, completely ruined by a 
yearly invasion of European, and, more particularly, of English 
sportsmen. I saw many ducks, even more than I had ex- 
pected, both on the Nile and the Lakes, but they sought safety 
in flight while we were still a long way off and before I 
could distinguish the species to which they belonged. A 
large Diver, also, that I met with several times at Lake 
Menzaleh would never let me come near enough. 
I found it utterly impossible to bag a specimen of the 
beautiful Egyptian Geese, formerly so common, but now so 
very perceptibly reduced in number. I only saw these 
handsome birds on the Nile, never on the lakes. The Purple 
Gallinule, too, seems to have already become very scarce. 
I met with enormous numbers of Flamingoes on Lake 
Menzaleh, but they very seldom fly into the interior of the 
country, and we only saw one of them on the Upper Nile. 
