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52. Motacilla Hifpanica. The Spanilh Wagtail. 
It came on board the 15th of Oftober, 1749, 
from the Spanifli fliore. It feeds on flies. 
^lie Arrival of Migrating Birds in 
Egypt, obferved in the year 1750. 
^ N the months of September and Oftober, at the 
end of the former, and beginning of the latter, I 
We obferved the wading birds called Grallae. 
Ardea Grus a (Crane) from Greece and Turkey. 
I know not whence this bird came. The Egyp- 
bans tell me, that it is an inhabitant of Egypt, and 
Wt it is met with in the Southern parts of the king- 
dom in fummer, but comes to Lower Egypt in au- 
Win. If this is true, it differs from the nature of 
Wer birds, which go from the North to the South 
llt that time ; but this, on account of food, comes 
the North. The bird of this kind, which I de- 
Cl 'ibed at Smyrna, was brought from Greece, ac- 
Wfling to the accounts of the Turks: but how can 
Us agree with the relation of the Egyptians ? 
fringa autumnalis. The autumnal Plover. 
Tringa tegyptia. The Egyptian Plover. 
Tringa Vanellus b . The Baftard Plover. 
comes in great numbers in the beginning of 
^ober, and remains all the winter. 1 faw it about 
* Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 141. N. z. b P. 148. N. z> 
Cairo 
