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AND LOWER EGYPT. 347
remain in numerous flocks on little stripes of
land, surrounded with the water, in the plains
that are inundated. The bird-catchers use a large
net, with which they take great quantities of
them, and bring them to the city in cages. The
period of their passage continues but a few days
in the beginning of September, and when this
time is past they disperse, so that scarcely any
are to be seen after. As they arrive from the
west with respect to Cairo, that is, from the
coasts of the Mediterranean, bordering on Barbary,
they are called in Egypt asfour dsjebali (mountain
birds), because they appear to come from the
sandy mountains of the desert. The Provencal
merchants settled at Cairo, call the tit-lark, which
is a bird of passage in their own country likewise,
colant'me.
remain in numerous flocks on little stripes of
land, surrounded with the water, in the plains
that are inundated. The bird-catchers use a large
net, with which they take great quantities of
them, and bring them to the city in cages. The
period of their passage continues but a few days
in the beginning of September, and when this
time is past they disperse, so that scarcely any
are to be seen after. As they arrive from the
west with respect to Cairo, that is, from the
coasts of the Mediterranean, bordering on Barbary,
they are called in Egypt asfour dsjebali (mountain
birds), because they appear to come from the
sandy mountains of the desert. The Provencal
merchants settled at Cairo, call the tit-lark, which
is a bird of passage in their own country likewise,
colant'me.