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the "Zoologist" (p. 2879), "a very beautiful adult 

 specimen was sliot on Blundeston marsh, near Lowes- 

 toft. The bird was a female, but the ova were not 

 larger than small peas." 



Again after an interval of just eight years, I 

 ascertained through Mr. Eising, of Horsey, that an ibis 

 had been seen, but not procured, in the vicinity of 

 Yarmouth, early in the month of January, 1868 ; and 

 on the 13th of September of that year, the last that has 

 been recognised in this county was killed at Stalham. 

 This bird, which is now in the possession of Mr. Silcock 

 of that place, proved to be a female, apparently in the 

 plumage to which the term " glossy " has been usually 

 applied. The head and upper parts of the neck are 

 light reddish-brown streaked with white, some of the 

 feathers being white at the tips, and others white only 

 along the outer edge of the web on either side with 

 the tips brown. The lower part of breast, and under 

 plumage generally, is reddish-brown, with green and 

 purple feathers intermixed, the latter chiefly on the 

 flanks. The back is glossed with purple and green 

 reflections. Scapulars, wing-coverts, and quill-feathers, 

 bright glossy-green, having a bronzed hue, the latter 

 deepest in colour, as also the tail-feathers. The 

 primaries darker in colour than the secondaries. 

 Weight one pound six ounces ; total length twenty- 

 five and a-half inches; extent of wings forty-two and 

 a-half inches ; from the carpal joint to the end of 

 longest quill (second) twelve inches ; bill, following the 

 curve of upper mandible, five and three-quarter inches ; 

 tail four and a-half inches ; bare portion of tibia, two 

 and three-quarter inches ; tarsus four and a-half inches ; 

 middle toe and claw three inches and three-eighths ; 

 hind toe and claw one inch and three-quarters ; inner 

 toe two inches and three-quarters ; outer toe two inches 

 and seven-eighths. The stomach was empty with the 

 exception of one minute shell of the periwinkle. 

 2c 



