SIX MONTHS’ BIRD COLLECTING IN EGYPT. 115 
formed almost without exception in the winter and 
spring. 
The most likely place for a future investigator to get new 
facts is Lake Bourlos (as yet unvisited by any English 
ornithologist), which lies between Alexandria and Damietta. 
It is forbidden to shoot on Menzaleh, and Mareotis and the 
Faioum have been pretty well worked. Indeed the Faioum 
has been visited by at least four collectors. Going how- 
ever as late as we did, I was sanguine that we should drop 
on something new, and if I had not been unwell I have no 
doubt I should have done a good deal there; as it was, we 
saw enough to repay us for our journey. Let me recom- 
mend no one to go the Faioum without a filter, as the water 
is disgustingly dirty. For getting about the lake a “Una” 
boat* would be the best thing to bring, as punts, canoes, and 
indiarubber boats are too small. 
® Mr. Broadway of Cairo has two, but he objects to letting them out 
except for the Nile trip. 
