lUK s(^ARI,KT lllls=. 49-5 



poultry. Tlio ibis is ovncrnlly osloonioil as o'ood food ; audits licli and i^jaudy plumage 

 is used by the Urazilians for various oniamciils. 



THE GLOSSY IBIS.* 



"There is good reasou to believe," says Mr. Yarrell, " that the Green, the Glossy, and 

 the ]5ay This of authors, with the various systenlatic names in use among ornithologists, 

 refer only to various states of the same breed, depending on ago or season, the difference 

 in appearance inducing the names. 



" The appearance of the Glossy Ibis iu this country, though not uncommon, is still 

 accidental ; the course of its migration for the summer towards the north of Europe 

 being considerably to the eastward in a line from Egypt to Turkey, Hungary, and 

 Poland, to the southern parts of Russia. It is also occasionally seen, on its passage from 

 northern Africa, in the Grecian Archipelago, in Sicily, Sardinia, and at Genoa." 



* 'rniilaliis FalfiiK'llus. — IVnn. 



