. Egyptian birds : for the most part seen in the Nile Valley . THE DESERT BULLFINCH 87 But if only people would walk—and I can see noearthly reason why they shouldnt, they probablywould at home—they would see such a wealth ofcharming pictures of bird-life that they would bewell rewarded. As it is I have sometimes askedfriends if they had noticed the extraordinarynumber of Wagtails, or whatever bird was passingby on its migration at the time, and have beenastonished to find they had seen none, whensometimes the ground has been literally coveredwith them. But no, they go clanging and joltingalon
. Egyptian birds : for the most part seen in the Nile Valley . THE DESERT BULLFINCH 87 But if only people would walk—and I can see noearthly reason why they shouldnt, they probablywould at home—they would see such a wealth ofcharming pictures of bird-life that they would bewell rewarded. As it is I have sometimes askedfriends if they had noticed the extraordinarynumber of Wagtails, or whatever bird was passingby on its migration at the time, and have beenastonished to find they had seen none, whensometimes the ground has been literally coveredwith them. But no, they go clanging and joltingalong, and I suppose do really see nothing. At Assuan among the sand and rocks I have seenquite wonderfully brilliant male birds sitting sing-ing something almost worthy to be called a song,—the ordinary sound is this rather monotonoussingle note-call. Its food is distinctly hard food,as we say of a cage-bird, and it spares no growingcrop—maize, grass, mustard, corn, all come aliketo it—but with this bird, as with many others,one does wonder how they s
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