Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney

Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney, OBE (née Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; 25 April 1857 – 21 December 1919, sometimes published as Lady William Cecil) was a British hereditary peer, charity worker, archaeologist in Egypt, ornithologist, and author.

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Occasionally, some tropical bird may perhaps be tempted north in search of food. Among these are the lovely little yellow-breasted Sun-birds, which are met with in Nubia, and, I believe, have sometimes been seen as far north as Aswan. Golden Orioles are visitors on the Nile, and brilliant blue Rollers, too, we saw in the Ghizeh gardens, going to their more Northern homes in Syria, Spain, and Italy.
The low sand banks in the river, or some lonely place in the desert, are nightly chosen as resting-places for the Storks, which are only travellers in the land.
- Bird Notes from the Nile. Archibald Constable & Company. 1904. pp. 12–13. test at archive.org

The Canadian Warbler, or Canadian Flycatcher [‘’Sylvania canadensis’’], as it is sometimes called, lives in damp woods, where it can find plenty of insects. It catches them on the wing, as well as picking them off plants and trees. Its colouring is grey above with black streaks on its head; its breast is yellow, with a row of black marks across it, set like a Lord Mayor’s chain of office. Its song is louder than that of most Warblers, but very sweet and clear.
- (December 1916) "Notes on a few American Warblers". Avicultural Magazine 8 (1): 47–55. (quote from p. 51; text at ca.archive.org)

There are curious remains near Cairo of a petrified forest, where portions of trees have been found measuring 60 to 90 feet in length and 3 feet in diameter. It is said to have been formed by a deposit of sand and water which in the course of ages petrified the wood. But although there is little doubt that primeval forests existed in Egypt, they must have disappeared at a very early date, as no special mention of them occurs, either in the oldest monuments or writings.
- A Sketch of Egyptian History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Methuen & Company. 1906. p. 21. (474 pages; 1st edition 1904)

The Egyptians possessed much interesting literature, of which poetry formed an important part. The hymns to Ra, Amen, and Hapi, and that of Akhenaten to the Sun's Disk, are all beautiful specimens; and so, likewise, is the epic poem to King Rameses, known as the "Poem of Pentaur."
- p. 33