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Id. vol. v. part i. p. 55.

Id. vol. iv. p. 206.

Id. vol. v. part ii. 517.

Id. part i. p. 59.

Id. p. 174; and part ii. p. 519.

See my “Researches,” vol. v. part i. p. 160.

Id. vol. v. p. 193.

Id. vol. iv. p. 193.

See my “Researches,” vol. iv. p. 351.

Id. vol. iv. p. 356 and 357.

Id. vol. iv. p. 392, and 507.

Id. vol. iv. p. 452.

Id. vol. iv. p. 458.

Id. vol. iv. p. 461.

Id. vol. iv. p. 475.

Id. vol. iv. p. 467.

See my “Researches,” vol. iv. p. 378 and 507; and vol. v. part ii. p. 516.

See Mr Buckland’s excellent work, entitled Reliquiæ Diluvianæ.

See in the Reliquiæ Diluvianæ of Mr Buckland the account of the skeleton of a woman found in the cave of Pavyland; and in my Researches, vol. iv. p. 193, that of a fragment of a jaw, found in the osseous brecciæ of Nice.

M. de Schlotheim collected human bones in fissures at Kœstritz, where there are also bones of rhinoceroses; but he himself expresses his doubts regarding the epoch at which they were deposited.

Herodotus, i. 2.

Ælian, lib. ii. cap. 35 and 38.

Id. lib. i. cap. 38.

Bruce, French translation, 8vo. vol. viii, p. 264; and Atlas, pl. xxxv., under the name of Abouhannès.

Description d’un Ibis blanc et de deux cicognes, Academie des Sciences de Paris, t. iii, pl. iii. p. 61. of the 4to edition of 1734, pl. xiii. fig. 1. The beak is represented as truncated at the end, but this is a fault of the engraver.

Numenius sordide albo-rufescens, capite anteriore nudo rubro, lateribus rubro purpureo et carneo colore maculatis, remigibus majoribus nigris, rectricibus sordide albo rufescentibus, rostro in exortu dilute luteo, in extremitate aurantio, pedibus griseis. Ibis candida, Brisson, Ornithologia, t. v. p. 349.

Planches Enluminées, No. 389; Histoire des Oiseaux, t. viii. 4to. p. 14. pl. 1. This last figure is a copy of that of Perault, with the same fault.

Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, p. 203. of the edition of 1799; but in the edition of 1807 he has restored the name of Ibis to the bird to which it belongs.

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