SIX MONTHS’ BIRD COLLECTING IN EGYPT. 195 
151. BLACK-TAILED GODWIT, Limosa egocephala (Linn.) ; 
? “ Bigueka Sultani.” 
At the Faioum we got one out of a small flock: it was 
still in winter plumage. I saw this flock about at the mouth 
of the canal as late as June 11th. This was the only one 
we shot; and I have some doubt whether Filliponi really 
intended the above name for this species. I suspect one 
was never got so late before in Egypt. 
152. REDSHANK, Totanus calidris (Linn). 
Rather common in the Delta. 
153. GREENSHANK, Totanus canescens (Gmel.) 
We did not shoot more than two or three, yet it is far 
from uncommon, and probably resident. It was seen at 
the Faioum on the 2nd of June.* 
154. GOLDEN PLOVER, Charadrius pluvialis, Linn. 
Plentiful on the 2oth of January at El Badalki, near 
Damietta. One flock must have numbered three or four 
hundred birds; but we did not shoot any, and never fell in 
with them again. : 
° A painstaking naturalist tells me that Greenshanks are so tame 
in the breeding season in Scotland, that he has twice stroked the 
dam upon her eggs, which in one case were eight in number. A 
Redshank’s “nest” has been taken at Hickling in Norfolk with eight 
eggs, and it was surmised by the finder that two birds had laid to- 
gether. Another was taken at Wells with seven. 
