SIX MONTHS’ BIRD COLLECTING IN EGYPT. III 
Of species previously supposed to be winter visitors, we got 
the Sanderling and some others in May, and the Avocet, 
Little Stint, Pigmy Curlew, and Lesser Tern in June; and 
I may add the Little Bittern in the same month, about 
which nothing certain was known. 
The range of the Olivaceous Warbler and the Scissorbill 
was extended north, and that of the Caspian Tern, White- 
winged Tern, Linnet, and one or two other species, south. 
The right of admission was also confirmed to sundry 
doubtful birds, and I regard this as one of the best results 
of our researches, such as Baillon’s Crake and Montague’s 
Harrier, which were only admitted into his work by 
Captain Shelley on sufferance. 
All the birds which we got and he did not get I have 
marked in my list with a star (*). For convenience sake 
I will here give a list of them:* Sociable Vulture, Bonelli’s 
Eagle, Honey Buzzard, Montague’s Harrier, Grey Wagtail, 
Black Redstart, Rock Swallow (?), Orphean Warbler, English 
Swift, Reed Warbler, Great Sedge Warbler, Baillon’s Crake, 
Dunlin, Sanderling, Marbled Duck, Eared Grebe, White- 
winged Tern, Lesser Tern, Lesser Pelican, African Cor- 
morant, and twenty-second and last, the rare Lesser White- 
fronted Goose. 
Eighteen hundred and seventy-five was reckoned a cold 
spring, and a backward summer. There was no Khamseen 
(the hot south wind). In spite of this I noticed some very 
early migratory arrivals; for instance the Egyptian Swift 
( Cypselus pallidus) was se¢n on February 14th ;f others, on 
the other hand, came later than the time given for them in 
the “Birds of Egypt,” as, for example, Turtur isabellina, 
® All but three are zzcluded in the “ Birds of Egypt.” 
t+ Mr. E. C. Taylor tells me that he does not consider that Cypselus 
pallidus is a migrant. 
