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1921 .] Birds of Lower Egypt. 
[Four eggs in the Fay um and three at Inch as appear to 
he the . normal clutch ; I never found five. At Lake Qarun 
in the Fayum I took two fresh clutches of four on 
30. iii. 10. 
At Inchas the beginning of June is the best time for 
fresh clutches, though I took fresh eggs between 28. iv. 09 
and 27. vi. 09, hut clutches of three taken on 15. v. 09 and 
6 . vi. 09 were slightly and very much incubated.-—It. S.] 
55. Acrocephalus scirpaceus scirpaceus. Common Reed- 
Warbler. 
On 10 March, 1916, I picked up a Reed-War bier which 
had been injured by flying against our aerial wires. Also 
observed in the vicinity of the Birket Accrashi in April, 
and again in early September. 
56. Acrocephalus schcenobaeims. Sedge-Warbler. 
Common during both migrations. Several were observed 
so late in the spring—May—that I thought they must be 
breeding, but I never found any trace of nesting, and they 
subsequently disappeared, to return sometimes as early as 
14 August. 
57. Hypolais pallida pallida. Olivaceous Warbler. 
Very common from the end of March until the end of 
August. Numbers breed at Abu Zabal, commencing to 
build soon after their arrival. As building-sites they usually 
select lime, orange or tangerine trees, but I found several 
in geranium bushes with the nest neatly built into a fork 
about two feet from the ground. Two broods are reared in 
a season, the second about the end of June ; but I have 
occasionally found young birds still in the nest as late as the 
second week in August. Two to three is the usual clutch, 
and I only once found one of four. I have two sets of very 
pink eggs taken at Abu Zabal on 9. vi. 16 and 13. v. 16. 
[The normal clutch consists of three eggs : only one set of 
four observed. 10 May is the usual date for fresh eggs. 
—R.S.] 
