384 AVES. 



Others have scutellated legsj their beak, most commonly, is more 

 slender. 



lb. rubra; Scol. rubra, L.; Tantal. ruber, Gm.j Enl. 80 and 81 j 

 Wils, VIII, Ixvi, 2. (The Red Ibis.) A bird found in all the 

 hot parts of America, remarkable for its bright red colour; the 

 tips of the wing-quills are black. The young ones, at first co- 

 vered with a blackish down, become cinereous, and, when ready 

 to fly, whitish; in two years the red makes its appearance, and 

 continues to increase in lustre with age. This species does not 

 migrate, and lives in flocks in marshy spots in the vicinity of 

 estuaries. It is easily domesticated. 



Scol.falcinellus, L.; Courlisvert, Enl. 819; Naum. Ed. I. Supp, 

 28, Savig. Eg. Ois. pi. vii, f. 9. (The Green Ibis.) A purple 

 brown-red; mantle of a deep green; the head and neck of the 

 young marked with whitish dots. It is a beautiful bird of south- 

 ern Europe, and of northern Africa, and most probably the spe- 

 cies denominated by the ancients the Black Ibis.(^l) 



NuMENius, Cuv.(3) 



The Curlews have the beak arcuated like that of the Ibis, but it 

 is more slender, and round throughout: the tip of the upper man- 

 dible extends beyond the end of the lower one, and projects a little 

 downwards in front of it. The toes are palmated at base. 



ScoL arcuata, L., Enl. 818; Frisch, 224; Naum. 5, f. 5. (The 

 Curlew of Europe.) Is the size of a Capon; brown; the edges of 

 all the feathers, whitish; rump, white; tail, striped with white 

 and bi'own. Common along the coast of Europe, and in transitu 

 in the interior. Its name is derived from its cry. (3) 



the coverts less slender, and partly varied witli white; long and pointed feathers 

 on the upper part of the breast, {Ibis molucca, Cuv.) and another in Bengal, with 

 but slightly attenuated ash coloured coverts {J bis bengala, Cuv.). 



Add lb. papulosa, T. Col. 304; Tant. calvus, Gm., Enl. 867; Ibis nudifrons, 

 Spix, 86; lb. oxycercus. Id. 87; T. albicollis, Gm. or Curicaca of Marcgr., Enl. 

 976; Tant. cayennensis, Gm., Enl. 820; Ibis plumbeus, T. Col. 235; Tant. 

 melanopis, Gm.; Lath., JII, pi. Ixxix; lb. chalcoptera, Vieill. Gal. 246, or Tant. 

 hogedash. Lath. 



(1) Add Tantalus albus and T. coco, Gm.;Enl. 195; T. cmtous. Id. ; Enl. 841; 

 , Ibis leucopygus, Spix, 88, if it should not pi'ove to be tlae young of the ruber,- 



Tant. kucocephalus. Lath., Ill, pi. Ixxx, 2- [N.C. The T. fuscus of Gm. is the 

 young of the T. albus. Id. J^m. Ed.] 



(2) Numenius, derived from ndomenie, new moon, on account of its crescent 

 shaped beak. 



(3) Add the Cowlis a meches ^troites of the GaTpe {Num.virgatus, C), Enl. 198; 

 the C. d m. i't. of India {JV. lineatus); the JVufn. longirostris, Wils. of America, 

 Am. Orn. II, xxiv, 4:; Num. hudsonius. Id. LXVI, f. 1. 



