E G Y P T I A N
B I R D S

FOR THE MOST PART SEEN IN
THE NILE VALLEY

BY
CHARLES WHYMPER


LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909

DEDICATED TO

His Highness The Khedive

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION

OF MUCH PERSONAL KINDNESS AND INTEREST

SHOWN TO

THE   AUTHOR

FOREWORD

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