CHAPTER VII. 
IN arranging my notes on the Birds of Egypt, I have 
consulted all the works I knew of likely to give me assist- 
ance, except the German works of Heuglin, Riippell, and 
others, which for lack of a knowledge of German I have 
been unable to use as I could have wished. In particular 
I have made free use of Dresser’s “ Birds of Europe,” and 
of all the papers in the “Ibis” which have any reference to 
Egyptian Ornithology. Of Shelley’s “Birds of Egypt” I 
needly hardly say that it was of the greatest service to me. 
No one should think of going to shoot birds in Egypt with- 
out it. I can bear testimony to the accuracy of his field 
notes. I was surprised not to find it on sale at Robertson’s, 
the English bookseller, either at Cairo or Alexandria, but 
perhaps the edition is exhausted. The general manual of 
ornithology for the British tourist is Smith’s “ Attractions 
of the Nile,” and-a very good book it is, but it is not suffi- 
cient without the more scientific work of Captain Shelley ; 
and those who wish to make a good use of their oppor- 
tunities should provide themselves with both works before 
having England. 
It does not seem necessary to enumerate the titles of all 
the publications which have treated of Egyptian birds, but 
there are three on which I should like to offer a few remarks, 
Hasselquist, Savigny, and Sonini. The title of Frederic 
Hasselquist’s work is, “Jter Palestinum, eller Resa til 
helige Landet,” etc. Stockh, 1757. It was translated into 
German in 1762; into English in 1766; and into French in 
