( :^'C ) 

 Comatibis eremita (L.). 



1555. Corius ,^i/haliruf, Gesner, Hit. A,,,,,,. III. (de Avibus), p. 351. 



1582. Waldrapp, Gesner, Vogdbuch, p. 199. 



1617. Conus syliaticus, Gesner. ffist. Anim. (ed, nov.) III. (de Av.), p. 309. 



1603. Con: sytt:, Aldrovandus, Oinithol. III. p. 270. 



1603. Phalacrocomx ex llli/rlo. Aldiov., Oniilliol. III. p. ilM. 



1617. Core, .tylv., Jonstou, Hist. Nat. Av. p. 95. 



1650. Con: sijli:, Jonston, Tlieali: Uniiers. Ai: p. 13ij. 



1676. Con: syh:, Kay & AVillughby, Oniitholorjiae Lib,: trex, p. :!0C. 



1678. Gesner's Wood-Crow, Ray, Willughby's Oniltli. p. 390. 



1740. Wood-Croto from Sicitserland. Albin, .S'«/)/j7. Nal. JIht. li. PI. 10, p. 16. 



1745. Arqiiata sylvat. nigra, Barrere, Oniilh. Spec, iiouiim. Class IV. Gen. IX. Sp. •>. 



1750. Uptijm montann, Klein, Hi.it. Ar. Prodr. p. 111. 



1758. U. eremita, Linnaeus, Syd. Sat. Ed. X. p. 118. 



1760. Le Coracias hitpe, Brisson, Ornilli. II. p. G. 



1766. Corvus eremita, Linnaeus, Si/.tl. Xai. Ed. XII. p. 159. 



1775. Le Coracias huppi, llontbeillard (not Buffon !), Uixl. A^l^ Oia. III. p. 9. 



1790. C. eremita, Latham. I/ides Orn. I. p. 1G6. 



1791. Alpeiirabe, Bechstein, Gem. Xati(r/j. Oeiilschl. II. p. 470, PI. XVII. 

 1801. nermil Crow, Latham, Svppl. (ieti. Si/n. TI. p. 115. 



1805. (Footnote to C. graculuK), Bechstein, 2nd ed. p. 1241 (PI.). 



1832. Geroiiticm spec. nor. ex Aegypto, Wagler, /.<«, 1832, p. 1232. 



1845. Ibis comala, Eiippell, Si/st. Ueber.-:. Viig. X.O. Afr. p. 119, PI. 45. 



1849. Comatibis coinata, Reicheubach, Av. Si/.it. Nat. p. xiv. 



1850. Ibis calms {nee Bodd !), Levaillant jun., Kxpl. Scieiil. de I'Atgrrie, PI. 12. 



1850. Comatibis (gen. nov.) comala, Reichenbach, Ar. GroUatores, Tab. CXXXIII. fig. 2.383. 



1855. Geronticus comatns, Brehm, Heiseskizzen, III. p. 141 ( ? ride Heugl.). 



1860. Geronticus comutus, Tristram, Ibi.i, p. 78. 



1863. Comatibis com., A. v. Homeyer, J. f. (). p. 269. 



1863. Ibis com., Schlegel, JIiis. Pays Das, 4, p. 9. 



1867. Comatibis com., Loche, Expl. Sclent. Algerie, Ois. p. 153. 



1870. Ger. com., Blanford, Geol. <£• Zool. Abyssinia, p. 436. 



1873. Ibis com., Heuglin, Orn. N. O. Afr. II. p. 1144. 



1877. Comatibis com., Elliot, P. Z. S. p. 493. 



1880. Ibis com.. Dresser, B. Europe, VL p. 329, PI. 408. 



1882. Comatibis com., Tristram, Ibi.i. p. 414. 



Distribution. 



Formerly parts of Europe; Southern Algiers (Bon Gnizoun on the road to 

 El Agbonat, Bogbar, Province of Bone): j)ri)l)iilil.v throngliont the Sahara to 

 Aliyssiuia, where Blanford fonnd it near Senafd and Antalo, Henglin on tlie plateaus 

 of Wogara and Hamedo (the Tring Museum possesse.s a skin brought home 

 by Scbiniper from his journey to Abyssinia); Red Sea coast of Arabia, Birejik on 

 the Euphrates. 



Our PI. X. is made from tlie skin in the Tring ]\luscuin, and with the hel]) 

 of u coloured sketch taken from life by Mr. Danford and Icindly lent us by 

 ilr. Dresser. 



PoSTSCRIPTUM. 



While searching the literature of Comatibis eremita, the authors became 

 interested in the Ibis generally. They found that there is no reason to confonnd 

 the Ibis olivacea of Du Bus {Bull. Ac. Bntr. 1S37, p. 105, and Ks(jitisses Ornithol. 

 PI. 3) with tlie bird found by Ussher in Denkera and figured ]'. /.. S. 1877, PI. o1. 

 The total colonriiig is different, as well as the crest. It is probable that Du Bn-- 



