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there is no room for doubt. The " Crested Ibis " (fig. 4 of 

 plate ii.) is evidently Comatibis comata, ov, as we must now 

 learn to call it (see Ibis, 1898, p. IS^), C. eremita, which 

 may well have occurred in Egypt in former days. The 

 figures of Strix flammea and Neophron percnopterus are also 

 easily recognizable, though hardly accurate. 



In the general series of hieroglyphs contained in the 

 Sixth Memoir, a good many " conventionalized " figures of 

 birds are again to be found, amongst which are recognizable 

 representations of the Sacred Ibis i^Ibis anthiupica), as well as 

 of the Crested Ibis {Comatibis comata sive eremita). 



A new work on the Birds of Egypt, which avc may 

 expect to be undertaken before long, should certainly not 

 fail to contain references to all tlie species represented in 

 the ancient monuments of all kinds. 



The American Museum of Natural Historij. — The Report 

 of this important institution for 1899 informs us that an 

 exceedingly valuable collection of birds has been made 

 for it in the U.S. of Colombia by the well-known collector 

 Mr. Herbert H. Smith, and that ho is continuing his re- 

 searches for another year. In the department of Vertebrate 

 Zoology 3139 birds have been received. Several new groups 

 have been added to the Exhibition Series, a;id amongst them 

 one of the Brown Pelican (Pelecanus fuscus), of which a 

 photographic figure is given in the Report. The " Local 

 Collection,^^ which includes examples of all species found 

 within 50 miles of New York city, " forms one of the must 

 instructive features of Department.^^ 



Seebohm's Works on Siberia. — We read in the ' Athenteum ' 

 (July 14th, 1900, p. Gl) that Mr. Seebohm's two volumes, 

 ' Siberia in Europe ' and ' Siberia in Asia,' have been out of 

 print for several years. It was the author's intention to 

 amalgamate the two, omitting the more ephemeral portions, 

 and so forming one book, giving the result of his ornitho- 

 logical travels and researches in the north. He had made 

 considerable progress with the work at the time of his death 



