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Reminiscences of Egypt. 
11 inches. Bill black. Irides red. Legs and feet very bright 
yellow. Legs long. Toes four in number. Head and neck 
brownish grey: back brown, glossed with purple: throat whitish: 
breast bluish grey: belly buff: thighs, vent, upper and under 
tail-coverts, tail-feathers and wing-coverts pure white. Primaries 
black. 
66. Numenius arquata. Common Curlew. 
Occasionally shot, but by no means common. 
67. Himantopus melanopterus. Black-winged Stilt. 
I saw this bird on one occasion only, on some marshy ground 
near Benisouef, where there were several flying about, one of 
which was shot. 
68. Totanus ochropus. Green Sandpiper. 
Abundant, and generally distributed. 
69. Totanus hypoleucus. Common Sandpiper. 
Not quite so numerous as the preceding species. 
70. Totanus stagnatilis. Marsh Sandpiper. 
Gould’s Birds of Europe, vol. iv. pi. 314. 
We procured one specimen only of this rare species, which 
was shot on some marshy ground near Denderah. 
71. Totanus glottis. Greenshank. 
Occasionally killed, but rather rare. 
72. Tringa temminckii. Temminck’s Stint. 
Occasionally killed in Upper Egypt, but by no means nu¬ 
merous. 
73. Scolopax gallinago. Common Snipe. 
Tolerably abundant in marshy ground. 
74. Scolopax gallinula. Jack Snipe. 
Almost as numerous as the preceding species, and frequenting 
the same localities. 
75. Rhynchasa bengalensis (Gm.). Short-winged Painted 
Snipe. 
The only time we fell in with this bird was on some wet 
ground near Keneh, where we killed six, two of which I skinned, 
