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there is no room for doubt. The “ Crested Ibis” (fig. 4 of 
plate ii.) is evidently Comatibis comata , or, as we must now 
learn to call it (see Ibis, 1898, p. 454), 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 33 figures of 
birds are again to be found, amongst which are recognizable 
representations of the Sacred Ibis (Ibis cethiopica ), as well as 
of the Crested Ibis ( Comatibis comata sive eremita ). 
A new work on the Birds of Egypt, which we may 
expect to be undertaken before long, should certainly not 
fail to contain references to all the species represented in 
the ancient monuments of all kinds. 
The American Museum of Natural History. —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 he 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, and amongst them 
one of the Brown Pelican ( Pelec anus fuscus ), of which a 
photographic figure is given in the Report. The f *' Local 
Collection/'’ which includes examples of all species found 
within 50 miles of New York city, “ forms one of the most 
instructive features of Department.” 
Seebohm 3 s Works on Siberia .—We read in the ‘Athenaeum ' 
(July 14th, 1900, p. 61) that Mr. Seebohm's two volumes, 
‘ Siberia in Europe ’ and f 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. 
