Category: Travel Writing
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,...
The Barn Owl has a custom which those who suffer from indigestion may well envy, and that is its power of disgorging, after every meal, all the indigestible portions of its dinn...
8. Part 8The Black Stork is not so interesting as the above, but it is a remarkably handsome bird in itself. All its peculiarities are just the opposite of the White Stork. It is not gre...
4. Part 4When I arrived early in October 1907 at Deir-el-Bahari, I saw thousands upon thousands of Swifts flying round in never-ending circles, and all, as far as I was able to identify...
5. Part 5Top of head a bluish-grey, margined with deep chestnut band over the eye and ear-coverts; black chin and collar; a white spot behind the eye; under-parts a silvery grey; wing ch...
7. Part 7Accounts in 1907-8 show that the Woodcock has been obtained fairly frequently, and a case was told me of two being obtained literally by the side of the road from Cairo to the P...
2. Part 2Mr. Howard Carter, whose long connection with the work of the Antiquities of Egypt gives him the right to speak with authority, is now preparing for publication a book on this w...
9. Part 9We have included this bird, as it is perhaps as handsome as any in all Egypt, but it may be questioned whether many of our readers will come across it, for it lives in dense ree...
6. Part 6Plumage--Upper parts brown marked with grey, rufous, and black, a buff line over eye and on crown of head, a semicircular collar of dark brown on throat; lower parts lighter, st...
10. Part 10Where, however, they can be still seen throughout the winter months and comparatively close at hand is on Lake Menzaleh. I saw them there in March, but by the 12th of April I co...
1. Part 1The 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...
12. Part 12"It can in general be thoroughly relied on for reference, especially on the questions of measurement and distribution, and we do not know of any book covering the whole ground w...
11. Part 11Gull, Black-headed, 197, Plate, 198, 199, 200, 201, 216 Common, 216 Great Black-headed, 216 Greater Black-backed, 216 Herring, 216 Lesser Black-backed, 197, Plate, 198, 216 Litt...