The Cemeteries of Abydos volume 35
The Cemeteries of Abydos volume 35
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For the identification of the birds-of-prey I am indebted to Mr. Pycraft, and for the dogs and sheep to Mr. Oldfield Thomas.
Three small pottery jars were also found, con- taining masses of broken ibis eggs ; on one of these jars a figure of the sacred bird had been scratched (fig. 21).
G 42 THE CEMETERIES OF ABYDOS.
The Sacred Il)i. S was in the past a by no means uncommon bird in Egypt, if one may judge by the enormous number of mummies wliich have been found in various parts of that coun...try. At tlie present day it is to be met with on the AVhite Nile south of Khartoum, although an occasional specimen is said to visit Egypt during the inundation, i. E. In the months of July and August, and disappear again when the Nile has subsided. This, however, has been denied by some ornithologists, and personally, although I spent two summers in Egypt and was continually travelling up and down the Nile, I never saw a single . Specimen. T might here mention that the bird pointed out by the tourists' dragoman as beinff the Sacred Ibis is in reality the Buff-backed Heron (Ardea bubul- cus), an egret-like liird of white plumage with a certain amount of rufous colouring on the back, and a short straight beak of a dull yellowish tinge ; the true Sacred Ibis, on the other hand, has a l)lack head and neck entirely destitute of feathers, a long black sickel-shaped bill, pure white plumage, the tips of the wings black, and from each shoulder droop black feathery plumes shot with blue, purple and green iridescence.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
G).
For the identification of the birds-of-prey I am indebted to Mr. Pycraft, and for the dogs and sheep to Mr. Oldfield Thomas.
Three small pottery jars were also found, con- taining masses of broken ibis eggs ; on one of these jars a figure of the sacred bird had been scratched (fig. 21).
G 42 THE CEMETERIES OF ABYDOS.
The Sacred Il)i. S was in the past a by no means uncommon bird in Egypt, if one may judge by the enormous number of mummies wliich have been found in various parts of that coun...try. At tlie present day it is to be met with on the AVhite Nile south of Khartoum, although an occasional specimen is said to visit Egypt during the inundation, i. E. In the months of July and August, and disappear again when the Nile has subsided. This, however, has been denied by some ornithologists, and personally, although I spent two summers in Egypt and was continually travelling up and down the Nile, I never saw a single . Specimen. T might here mention that the bird pointed out by the tourists' dragoman as beinff the Sacred Ibis is in reality the Buff-backed Heron (Ardea bubul- cus), an egret-like liird of white plumage with a certain amount of rufous colouring on the back, and a short straight beak of a dull yellowish tinge ; the true Sacred Ibis, on the other hand, has a l)lack head and neck entirely destitute of feathers, a long black sickel-shaped bill, pure white plumage, the tips of the wings black, and from each shoulder droop black feathery plumes shot with blue, purple and green iridescence.
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