TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 63 
| Periodical Birds observed in the Years 1844 and 1845 near Llanrwst, Den- 
bighshire, North Wales. By Joun Buacxwatt, F.L.S. 
Birds. Appeared. Disappeared. 
House Martin, Hirundo urbica ..cccccccececeenees ‘ 
Swallow, Hirundo rustica .......0.s.c00. Rents Tana T EIS y 
Redwing, Turdus iliacus 
Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola 
Mountain Finch, Fringilla montifringilla 
Fieldfare, Turdus pilaris 
Siskin, Fringilla spinus ... 
Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba......c.cccscsseeeeesees 
Sand Martin, Hirundo riparia 
Wheat-ear, Sawicola wnanthe......ccccccccceceves gacues 
Yellow Wren, Sylvia trochilus ......c.ccceeeescsees ves 
Tree Pipit, Anthus arboreus ... .csccsecseseeneeee sacar 
Common Sandpiper, Zofanus hypoleucos 
Swallow, Hirundo rustica .i.cccccccceccccecesecnce acre 
Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus 
Black-cap, Sylvia atricapilla....... by sadseue opeke sata, 
Wood Wren, Sylvia sibilatrix .......- SLigastmlbeeisewa ds 
White-throat, Sylvia cinerea 
Redstart, Sylvia phoenicurus ...c00....s000 
Pied Flycatcher, Muscicapa luctuosa 
House Martin, Airundo urbica ......eeceee 
Whinchat, Savicola rubetra .......5 «+. sassnenag ne Bhar 
_ | Pettychaps, Sylvia hortensis ........+ serdsaaiteasatnras 
Land Rail, Gallinula crex 
Swift, Cypselus murarius 
Red-backed Shrike, Lanius collurio 
Sedge Warbler, Sylvia phragmitis 
Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa grisola 
Goatsucker, Caprimulgus europaeus ...s.r.s.eeseeeeee 
Ona Gigantic Bird sculptured on the Tomb of an Officer of the Household of 
Bil Pharaoh. By Josrru Bonomi. 
: 
The author having referred to the large nests discovered by Cook and Flinders on 
the coast of New Holland, and to those discovered by Mr. James Burton on the west 
coast of the Red Sea, at Gebel Ezzeit, adds the following remarks :—Among the most 
ancient records of the primeval civilization of the human race that have come down 
to us, there is described, in tHe language the most universally intelligible, a gigantic 
stork bearing, with respect to a man of ordinary dimensions, the proportions exhibited 
in the drawing before you, which is faithfully copied from the criginal document. It 
_ is a bird of white plumage, straight and large beak, long feathers in the tail; the male 
bird has a tuft at the back of the head, and another at the breast: its habits appa- 
_ rently gregarious. ‘This very remarkable painted basso-relievo is seulptured on the 
_ wall, in the tomb of an officer of the household of Pharaoh Shufu (the Suphis of the 
Greeks), a monarch of the fourth dynasty, who reigned over Egypt, while yet a great 
part of the Delta was intersected by lakes overgrown with the papyrus,—while yet 
_ the smaller ramifications of the parent stream were inhabited by the crocodile and 
_ hippopotamus,—while yet, as it would seem, that favoured land had not been visited 
by calamity, nor the arts of peace disturbed by war; so the sculpture in these tombs 
intimate, for there is neither horse nor instrument of war in any one of these tombs. 
_ At that period, the period of the building of the Great Pyramid, which, according to 
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