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
Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus percnopterus L.) It is now much reduced in numbers and also driven to the S in Egypt today. I observed it northernmost at El Balyana, where a flock of 17 specimens were picking on the muddy shores of the Nile. Otherwise, I noted it only in the oasis Kom Ombo, namely an adult and a juvenile specimen on 24 October and an adult one on 28 October. Peregrine (Falco peregrinus ssp.) I observed peregrines, — with the exception of a single specimen at the Mariut lagune on 24 November, — only on the coastal region of the Red Sea. 1 sighted 2 specimens at Marsa el 'Alam on 31 October and another one on 1 November ; and a further specimen between Quseir and Hurghada on 3 November. Lanner (Falco biarmicus tanypterus Schlegel) I noted 2 specimens along the desert road between Suez and Cairo, 70 km W of Suez, on 7 November. I shot one of the specimens (a male). Saker (Falco cherrug cherrug Gray) I observed it twice in Egypt ; both times at the Pyramids of Gizeh. I noted 2 specimens at the Pyramid of Chefren on 20 September and a single individual also at the Pyramids on 11 November. Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus tinnunculus L., Falco tinnunculus rupicolaeformis Brehm) I recorded 126 specimens in the Region between 5 September and 24 November. Concerning their distribution, I may generally establish the followings : I never met with it on the coastal regions of the Red Sea between Marsa el 'Alam and Suez ; therefore all of them occurred in the Delta and the valley of the Nile between Cairo and Aswan. It is a peculiar fact that I never observed more than two specimens together, indeed, about two-third of the recorded specimens were single birds. Otherwise, the dispersal of the individuals between Alexandria and Aswan was rather uniform. With regard to the fact that subspecies cannot be surely distinguished in the field, I can conclude but on the basis of the probable time of the migrating nominate form in Egypt that the majority of the observed specimens belonged to the subspecies rupicolaeformis Brehm, nesting in Egypt. In spite of the fact that of the recorded 126 specimens I noted 11 ones in September and October, I still have to state that they could not all have been rupicolaeformis, since of the 7 specimens collected in this period, 4 proved to belong to the nominate form (1 female, Kom Oshim on 6 October ; 1 female, Lake Karun on 10 October ; 1 female, Kom Oshim on 11 October ; 1 female, Lord Kitchener island at Aswan on 26 October).
