208 bird s. 
Cairo the 15th of December, 1750, where it 
efteemed good eating. 
Several other fpecies of Plovers, which I hat? 
already defcribed. 
Pelecanus Onocrotalus c . The Pelecan. 
This bird comes to Egypt in the middle of Sep' 
tember. In flying, they form an acute angle, like 
the common wild Geefe, when they migrate. In the 
fummer they inhabit the Black Sea, and coafts ot 
Greece; and, in their migration, remain for a fe^ 
days near Smyrna, and the other parts of the coaft 9 
of Natolia, but never ft ray far from the continent 1 
they fly very high. Some of them remain at D a ' 
miata, and in the iflands of the Delta, in the M?' 
diterranean, but the greateft part goes to Egyp c * 
The Motacilla Ficedula arrives in September. 
The Alaudae (Larks) Fringilla Carduelis (Gold' 
finch) and domeftica,with feveral others of the Sp ar ' 
row tribe (Pafferes Linncei), remain all the year. 
NOVEMBER. 
In this month all forts of water fowl abound 111 
the places lately overflowed by the Nile; for b? r ® 
they find plenty of fraall frogs for food : they 
main till near the end of the fpring, and come, p c V 
haps, from Europe ; nor are they, at this time, 
numerous in Natolia and the iflands, 
0 s 
Anas Bofchas d . The Duck. 
This appeared on the tables about the begino’^ 
of this month : they are Ihot, but in no great pl eD ' 
c Lin. Syft. Nat. P.132.N.1. < Lin. Syft. Nat. P. 127- 
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