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only one immature bird seen. Everyone who has studied birds 
in Egypt seems to have noted the occurrence of this species in 
the breeding season, but as yet no one has found it nesting 
there. I suspect that a good search along the shores of Lake 
Mariotis might be productive. Cavendish Taylor, in the ‘ Ibis,’ 
1891, p. 478, notes that these birds at Alexandria have the 
mantle darker than northern birds have, and that they have no 
winter plumage! 
102. Alca torda, Linn.—The claims of this species as an 
addition to the Egyptian avifauna rests with a specimen picked 
up on the shore at Ramleh in the winter of 1908-9 by Mr. 
Raymond Clarke. He told me the bird was not very fresh. He 
kept the beak for identification, and gave it to me. I can find 
no record of the Razorbill in Shelley’s ‘ Birds of Egypt’ or in 
Von Heuglin’s book on the birds of North-east Africa. This 
Specimen may of course have drifted some way, but it seems 
unlikely that when alive it could have been very far from the 
Kigyptian coast. 
