Part 62

Philosophical Transactions for 1794.

Folio edition, Oxford 1746, pl. v. and pages 64-66.

Hasselquist, Iter Palestinum, p. 249. Magnitudo gallinæ, seu cornicis; and, p. 250. vasa quæ in sepulchris inveniuntur, cum avibus conditis, hujus sunt magnitudinis.

We have definitively established this genus in our “Regne Animal,” t. i. p. 483, and it appears to have been adopted by naturalists.

Bruce, loc. cit.; and Savigny, “Mem. sur l’Ibis,” p. 12.

Ælian, lib. ii. cap. 38.

Ψιλὴ τὴν κεφαλὴν, καὶ τὴν δειρὴν πᾶσαν, λευκὴ πτεροῖσι πλην κεφαλῆς, καὶ αὐχένος καὶ ἀκρέων τῶν πτερύγων καὶ τοῦ πυγαίου ἄκρου. Larcher, in his French translation of Herodotus, has properly understood the difference of the words αὐχήν, the nape, and δειρή or δέρη the throat.

Ælian, lib. v. cap. 29.

Ælian, lib. ii. cap. xxxv;--Plut. De Solert. An.; Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. ii.;--Phil. de Anim. prop. 16. &c.

De Med. Ægypt. lib. i. fol. i. vers. Paris Edition, 1646.

Rer. Ægypt. lib. iv. cap. i. t. i. p. 199 of the Leyden Edition.

See the French Translation, vol. ii. p. 167.

Description de l’Egypte, part ii. p. 23.

Antiq. Monum. Pl. x. p. 129.

Hist. Anim. lib. ix. cap. xxvii. and lib. x. cap. xxx.

Buffon, Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, 4to, vol. viii. p. 17.

Belon, Nature des Oiseaux, p. 159 and 200; and Portraits d’Oiseaux, folio 44, vers.

Observations de plusieurs singularités, &c.

Savigny, Mémoire sur l’Ibis, p. 37.

Idem, ibid.

See the Great Work on Egypt, Natural History of Birds, pl. vii. fig. 2.

Euterpe, cap. lxxv. Herodotus says a place in Arabia, but it is not seen how a place in Arabia could have been near the city of Buto, which was in the western part of the Delta.

Avis excelsa, cruribus rigidis, corneo proceroque rostro. Cic. de Nat. Deor. lib. i.

Strabo, lib. xvii.

Ælian, Anim. lib. x. cap. xxix.

Leopold de Buch, Voyage en Norwege, t. i. p. 30. of the German edition.

The Sierra Parima.

T. ii. p. 233, 236, 252, 273, 288, 382, 597, 627, and 633.