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Mr. W. Raw on the 
[Ibis, 
in the evening and night-time to feed. Common and 
resident at Abu Zabaal, where it is usually seen in pairs, but 
is more gregarious in the winter months, when small parties 
feed on the edge of the cultivation. I have found many 
of its eggs by -tracking the birds’ feet-marks on the sand. 
The eggs are usually laid well out on the desert from 
early April until late June. Sometimes only one egg is 
laid, and I never found three. Two clutches of eggs were 
taken in the Wadi Natrun at the end of May 1918, and the 
birds identified. 
[The only pair of eggs I have of this species were taken 
at Abu Roash on 15. iv. 09.—R. S.] 
184. Bur Mims senegalensis. Senegal Stone-Curlew. 
I identified this species at Abu Zabaal by shooting speci¬ 
mens there on 20 September and 23 October, 1918. At that 
time several were seen in a large orange-grove near the 
canal. The riots in the spring of 1919 prevented me hunting 
for their eggs there ; this was most disappointing, as I was 
very interested in its breeding-habits elsewhere. I took 
fresh eggs of this species at the Barrage near Cairo on 
28 April, 1918. These were found on the roof of a large 
low building, and as many as ten pairs were counted using 
the same roof as a breeding resort. I never heard of this 
bird selecting any other site as a nesting-place in Egypt, 
and it is common in Cairo itself, but rarely met with else¬ 
where. A pair of birds breed annually on the top of the 
Lion House in the Zoological Gardens at Giza, laying their 
pair of eggs on the bare concrete in the full sunlight. Four 
broods were raised there in 1916, the last clutch being laid 
daring the first week in July. Mr. Nicoll quotes this 
pair as having raised three young ones on one occasion. 
I know of no method of distinguishing its eggs from 
those of B. ce. saharce. In habits, however, it is quite 
different from that species, as it seems to prefer gardens and 
orchards, and its cry appeared to me to be much louder. 
During the full moon they were very noisy flying along 
the Nile, 
