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AND LOWER EGYPT. 55
I found again at Stout the same kinds of birds
which have established themselves in the other
cities of Egypt, that is to say, kites, sparrow-
hawks, percnopteres, very tame turtle doves (a
pair of these birds built their nest on the shelf of
a little window of the apartment which I occu-
pied), sparrows still more tame, for they come
into the houses, penetrate into the chambers, and
almost perch upon the inhabitants, to seek for
something to eat; and, finally, a multitude of
lapwings. All these birds formed at Sioul a se-
cond population, not less numerous, but far
more peaceable than the other.
I found again at Stout the same kinds of birds
which have established themselves in the other
cities of Egypt, that is to say, kites, sparrow-
hawks, percnopteres, very tame turtle doves (a
pair of these birds built their nest on the shelf of
a little window of the apartment which I occu-
pied), sparrows still more tame, for they come
into the houses, penetrate into the chambers, and
almost perch upon the inhabitants, to seek for
something to eat; and, finally, a multitude of
lapwings. All these birds formed at Sioul a se-
cond population, not less numerous, but far
more peaceable than the other.