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
Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola L.) I observed it between 24 September and 28 October. The number of specimens observed was 83 ; its dispersion is not uniform. I sighted 25 specimens at Abu Rawash in the Delta on 24 September, 21 in Kom Oshim between 7—12 October, and 23 on the Lake Karun on 10 and 13 October. A further bird was visible between Sohag and Qena on 10 October, 10 on the Kagug marshes near Silsilia, and 3 between Idfu and Aswan. I have not seen it elsewhere, nor on the Red Sea. I collected but one male. The data of its migration coincide with our knowledge in this regard. Redshank (Tringa totanus totanus L., T. t. eurhinus Oberh.) I saw a flock of 35 specimens on the Lake Karun on 10 October. There was but one bird visible in the oasis Kom Oshim on 11 and 12 October. I did not observe it elsewhere and at other dates on my south-bound journey in the valley of the Nile between Alexandria and Aswan. I noted 1 bird between Marsa el 'Alam and Quseir on the shore of the Red Sea on 2 November, and 8 specimens at Hurghada on 5 November. After having returned to Cairo, I observed 1 bird on an excursion to Helwan on 17 November. Of the above migration data, I have to emphasize the ones regarding the Red Sea, because the female shot at Hurghada belonged to the nominate form and thus renders a rare proof that, during the fall migration along the coastal area of the Red Sea, also the nominate form occurs and not only eurhinus Oberh. Greenshank (Tringa nebularia Gunn.) I observed but 3 solitary specimens in Egypt, one specimen on the reservoir of the oasis Kom Oshim on 7 October, another one in the same place on 12 October, and the third in the Lake Karun (on the shore of the island El Arn) on 13 October. The data are nothing special concerning the fall migration of the species. Curlew (Numenius arquata arquata L., N. a. orientális Brehm) I met with it once only in the valley of the Nile ; observing 2 specimens on the N desert shore of the Lake Karun on 13 October. On the shore of the Red Sea, I noted 42 specimens at Quseir and at Hurghada, more exactly between the two localities on 2—5 November. This number, with the exception of two solitary birds, is the result of three flocks consisting of 6, 11, and 23 specimens. Of the 23 individuals mingled with a flock of oyster-catchers in the bay of Hurghada, I shot one female which proved to belong to the subspecies orientális Brehm. It may be assumed that the specimens along the Red Sea coast, or at least the flock at Hurghada, also belonged to this NE Asiatic subspecies.
