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stopped in their course and driven to seek rest. Two unim- 
portant additions to the number of Maltese species are men- 
tioned by the author in his supplementary paper. 
iETHIOPIAN REGION. 
Adams^ a. L. Notes and Observations on the Birds of Egypt 
and Nubia. Ibis^ 1864_,pp. 1-36^ and (Extracts translated 
by Dr. HaRtmanN from the first part only) in Journ. f. 
Ornith. 1864, pp. 382-393. Erratum noticed, Ibis, 1864, 
p. 430. See also Allen, S. S. 
These observations were made on the Nile between Cairo and 
the Second Cataract, during November, 1862, and the two 
following months. Only about 105 species were noticed. Tlie 
author remarks on the excellence of the representation of dif- 
ferent birds in the hieroglyphic characters, and on the various 
species which were embalmed by the ancient Egyptians. In his 
introduction also he roughlj?^ indicates the geographical range 
of the species met with. The majority of Gh'allcE Anatidm 
do not proceed further south than the First Cataract ; at the 
Second Cataract appear the outposts of a new ornithological 
province ; but mRny common European birds appear to winter 
higher up the Nile. Dr. Adams also briefly shows the changes 
in the distribution of species observable when passing from the 
river to the desert. 
Adams, A. L. Notes on the Mummied Bodies of the Ibis and 
other Bitds found in Egypt. Edinb. New Philos. Journ., 
New Series, vol. xix. pp. 173-183. 
Tlie author remarks on the discrepancies in the dimensions of 
various mummied Ibises^ which he thinks are not merely sexual 
differences, but owing to variation induced by long domestication, 
in which state he imagines the sacred bird to have been kept 
hj^ the ancient Egyptians. A description of the contents of the 
gizzards of several specimens follows ; and similar observations 
are made respecting the mummies of three species of FaU 
tomd<n% 
Allen, S. S< Remarks on Dr, A. Leith Adamses Notes and 
Observations on the Birds of Egvpt and Nubia.^^ Ibis, 
1864, pp. 233^243. 
^'he author has had more extended opportunities for obser- 
vation than Dr. Adams, having spent four seasons in Egypt, not 
merely up the Nile Valley, but also in the Faioum and the Delta; 
in consequence he is able to extend the list of Egyptian birds 
not inconsiderably. With an enumeration of these additions, 
