178 Mr A. L. Adams on the Mummied Bodies of the Ibis, 



bill, both appear of a reddish colour. The bones of this 

 specimen were much smaller and more friable than many 

 of the others — probably a young bird. The gizzard con- 

 tained a mass of black peat-like substance, with portions of 

 the elytra of small beetles. 



Spec, d and e. The gizzards of these two were empty. 

 One was the largest specimen of all I examined. 



Spec. f. The gizzard contained several large quartz 

 pebbles, interspersed with numerous univalve spiral shells, 

 evidently of the family Paludinee."^ Along with the afore- 

 mentioned pebbles, a small oblong bead was found, with a 

 hole through it, the same as now found on the wrists and 

 forming necklaces on the human mummies. 



Spec. g. A mass of small beetles of different species ; a 

 few with brilliant green elytra ;t also the cast of what may 

 have been the shell of an Helix. 



Spec, h, i, j\ contained the usual amount of undetermin- 

 able peat-like substance, interspersed with abundance of 

 elytra and parts of beetles of divers sorts. 



Examination of a Mummied Haivk f rom the Necropolis of Thebes. 



From the small portions capable of removal, and the size 

 and measurements of the bones, I take this to be a female 

 of Circus pallidus, which is at present one of the common 

 rapacious birds of Egypt and Nubia. 



Skull much fractured. The upper mandible, IxV in. ; 

 humerus, 3t%- in. ; ulna, 4i\ in. ; femur, 2j\ in. ; tibia, 3t\ 

 in. ; claw of middle toe, tV in. 



The right radius and ulna appear to have been fractured 

 at the time the bird was buried, showing that the bird may 

 have been killed by accident or design. 



Examination of the Body of a Mummied Eagle, found at Thebes. 



This is in all probability the common spotted eagle 

 (Aquila ncevia), which affects the river valley for a long 

 way, even above the first cataract. The following mea- 



See note at conclusion, 

 t Several identical with the species common everywhere on the banks of 

 the river. 



