THE question is so often asked, “What is the name of that bird?” that the author has tried in plainest fashion to answer such questions. The scientific man will find little that is new in these pages; they are not meant for him—they are alone meant for the wayfaring man who, travelling this ancient Egypt, wishes to learn something of the birds he sees.

C. W.

Houghton, Huntingdonshire,
1909.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[1.] Coot[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[2.] Birds in Mid-air [1]
[3.] A View on the Nile near Minieh[10]
[4.] Griffon Vulture[14]
[5.] Egyptian Vulture[20]
[6.] Egyptian Kite[30]
[7.] Kites in Flight[32]
[8.] Barn-Owl[34]
[9.] Little Owl[38]
[10.] Egyptian Eagle Owl[42]
[11.] Hoopoe[46]
[12.] Common Kingfisher[50]
[13.] Black and White Kingfisher[52]
[14.] Little Green Bee-Eater[54]
[15.] Common Swallow and Egyptian Swallow[60]
[16.] Pale Crag Swallow[62]
[17.] White Wagtail[66]
[18.] Crested Lark[70]
[19.] White-rumped Chat and Rosy Chat[72]
[20.] Blue-throated Warbler[74]
[21.] Reed Warbler[78]
[22.] Sparrow[82]
[23.] Desert Bullfinch or Trumpeter Finch[86]
[24.] Hooded Crow[90]
[25.] Egyptian Palm Doves[92]
[26.] Sand-Grouse[94]
[27.] Hey’s Sand-Partridge[100]
[28.] Quail[104]
[29.] Cream-coloured Courser[108]
[30.] Green Plover or Lapwing[112]
[31.] Spur-winged Plover[114]
[32.] Black-headed Plover[116]
[33.] Ringed Plover[120]
[34.] Common Snipe[126]
[35.] Painted Snipe[128]
[36.] Avocet[130]
[37.] Sacred Ibis and Papyrus[132]
[38.] Cranes[136]
[39.] Spoonbills[140]
[40.] Black Stork[142]
[41.] Shoebill Stork[148]
[42.] Herons[152]
[43.] Buff-backed Heron[156]
[44.] Night Heron[160]
[45.] Flamingo[162]
[46.] Studies of Gallinule[168]
[47.] Egyptian Geese[174]
[48.] Pintail, Teal, and Shoveller Duck[178]
[49.] White Pelicans[186]
[50.] Cormorants[192]
[51.] Lesser Black-backed Gull and Black-headed Gull[198]

Also eleven line drawings in the text.