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small parties of half a dozen. Its flight is very rapid and 
straight, and the cry is clear and sharp and often repeated, 
especially when on the wing. It feeds principally on berries 
and wild fruit, and I have noticed that it drinks regularly, 
usually about noon. 
The soft parts are:—Irides pale yellow; bill, upper 
mandible blackish, lower pearly; legs and toes slaty.] 
[To be continued.] 
XXIX.— On the Birds noticed during a Voyage to Alexandria. 
By Claud B. Ticehurst, M.A., M.R.C.S., M.B.O.U. 
In the spring of 1909 I went by a slow passenger-steamer 
to Alexandria. As there are not a great number of papers 
dealing with bird-life seen at sea and in the neighbourhood 
of the ports of call, I think that it may be worth while to put 
on record the names of such species as I came across, especi¬ 
ally as I was on the look out the whole time, and kept careful 
notes of those that I met with. Short calls of a few hours 
were made at Gibraltar, Algiers, and Malta, and nearly all 
the time available at these places was devoted to studying 
the bird-life of the neighbourhood. 
I left Liverpool on April the 13th, 1909, in the s.s. ‘Menes.’ 
In the Mersey were noted Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 
Herring-Gulls, both adult and immature, and some Common 
Gulls. The next day, as we went down the Welsh coast, 
Herring-Gulls, Lesser Black-hacked Gulls, and Kittiwakes 
followed the ship the whole day, and these were almost all 
adult birds ; two adult Gannets were also seen. At dusk 
about a dozen Manx Shearwaters appeared from the west 
flying in towards land. Had these birds come from the Irish 
coast, or had they been resting on the sea during the day ? 
On the 15th, we were out of sight of land after leaving the 
Scilly Islands at 3 a.m., and birds were scarce; a few adult 
and immature Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinus ) and 
Puffins were all that were seen, except a large Skua in the 
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