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XI.— Contributions to the Ornithology of Egypt. —No. II. 
Birds of the Province of Giza. Part 1. By Michael J. 
Ntcoll, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Plate IV.) 
The following paper is chiefly based on a collection of birds 
made by myself during a residence of two and a half years 
at Giza, supplemented by notes from Captain Flower. I do 
not offer it as a complete list of all the birds occurring in 
the Province, as I have only mentioned such species as have 
come under my personal observation or have been vouched 
for by competent correspondents and friends, amongst whom 
I should specially mention Mr. E. W. Buckley, Mr. G. E. 
Burnett-Stuart, Capt. J. W. H. Seppings, and Capt. J. B. 
Jenkinson. 
Owing to the number of birds on which I have notes it 
will be necessary to divide the paper into three parts, in the 
course of which several species will be recorded for the first 
time from Egypt. 
The resident birds of Egypt are few in number as 
regards species, compared with the migrants, and are 
somewhat local in their distribution, for which reason it 
will be seen that several well-known Egyptian forms are 
not included in my paper. 
The Province of Giza extends for some seventy miles 
along the banks of the Nile, from about seventeen miles 
north of Cairo to about six miles north of Beni Souf. 
North of Cairo it is confined to the west bank of the river. 
Immediately above the town, however, both banks are 
included, while for about the last seventeen miles it includes 
the east bank only. 
The Province consists of a narrow strip of alluvium, varying 
from about six miles at its greatest breadth, which is on the 
west bank only, opposite Cairo, to three and a half miles at 
Kafr Ammar, where^'both banks are included. The rest is 
desert, the highest surveyed point being 330 metres (or 
1083 feet) above the Wadi Hof near Helwan. 
