Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 51. (Budapest 1959)
Horváth, L.: The results of the zoological collecting trip to Egypt in 1957, of the Natural History Museum, Budapest 7. The ornithological results
case of this species that southern populations migrate earlier. Three male specimens were collected. Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax L.) I have only one sight record to prove its fall migration through Egypt ; I sighted a single specimen at a small reefy lake in the valley of the Nile in the Beni Suef province, near Sids on 15 October. Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus minutus L.) I noted 6 specimens. The specimens observed in Alexandria on 4 September, in Abu Rawash on 24 September, in Kom Oshim on 11 and 12 October were surely resident breeding specimens in Egypt. The specimen observed in the Mariut lagune on 23 November could already have been a northern migrant. Its late night movement is testified by a specimen alighting for a short time on the fence of a house in the busiest part of Alexandria ; it was probably dazed, — when flying from the Mariut lagune toward the sea ,— by the strong lights of the city. For our collection, I bagged the female observed in Abu Rawash. Bittern (Botaurus stellaris stellaris L.) The specimen observed on the reedy reservoir of the oasis Kom Oshim on II October belonged surely to the southernmost populations of the species, because the Central European, and so also the Hungarian, birds depart much later for the S ; and Egypt is not included in its nesting areas. White Stork (Ciconia ciconia ciconia L.) I met with storks only twice in Egypt, having noted 2 specimens at El Deir (Upper Egypt) in the valley of the Nile on 24 October, and 7 further ones between Idfu and Aswan on 28 October. Black Stork (Ciconia nigra L.) I sighted one specimen only in the valley of the Nile, on an inundated area above Thebes on 23 October. I observed 2 specimens at Hurghada on 4 November, arriving from over the Red Sea and setting out directly across the desert. I saw 2 specimens again between Hurghada and Suez on 6 November, flying also in a SW direction, being, at the time of observation, already about 5 km far from the shore of the Red Sea. These two latter data show clearly that Asiatic individuals arrive at the valley of the Nile by traversing the Red Sea and the Arab Desert. This explains why the black stork is so rarely observed in Egypt (according to dr. Hassan Saber, ornithologist in Cairo, there were no records from Egypt since 1926). Black storks therefore do not follow the Nile across Egypt,
