HEPOnOI — IBIZ 6l 



I BIZ {conliiitied). 



birds : having been likened to a Stork by Strabo, it was identified 

 with that bird by Belon, by Prosp. Alpin., Hist. Eg. Nat. p. 199, 

 and by Caylus, Antiq. Eg. vii. p. 54, though such an identification 

 was expressly rejected by (e.g.) Albertus Magnus (vi. p. 640 non 

 est ciconia : quia rostrum longum quidem sed aduncum habet), and 

 Vincent. Burgund., Bibl. Mund. i. p. 1212; it was supposed to be 

 a Curlew {falcineUus) by Gesner (H. A. iii. 546) and Aldrovandi (Orn. 

 iii. p. 312) and an Egret or White Heron by Hasselquist (Iter Palest. 

 (2) cl. 2, no. 25), an identification adopted by Linnaeus (Syst. Nat. 

 ed. X. p. 114); by Perrault (Acad, des Sc. Paris, iii. p. 58, pt. xiii) 

 it was taken to be a much larger bird, the Tantalus ibis of Linnaeus 

 (Syst. Nat. ed. xii) ; and yet others, e. g. Maillet (Descr. de I'Egypte, 

 4to ii. p. 22) confounded it with the Egyptian Vulture or ' Pharaoh's 

 Hen.' The White Ibis is figured on the Mosaic of Palestrina (cf. the 

 coloured figures in the Pitture ant. di Petr. S. Bartholi) and in the 

 Pitture ant. d' Erculaneo (ii. pll. 59, 60). 



The Black Ibis of Herodotus, the Glossy Ibis of ornithologists, is 

 Ibis falcinelhcs, Temm., Falcijtelliis igneus or Plegades falcineUus of 

 more recent writers. It is confounded by L. & Sc. with the Scarlet 

 Ibis, an American bird. To it the Arab name el hareiz is said 

 especially to apply. 



On both species, see Cuvier, Ann. du Mus. iv. pp. 103-135, 1804; 

 and especially the learned memoir of J. C. Savigny, Hist. nat. et 

 mythol. de I'lbis, 8vo Paris, 1805. On Ibis mummies, cf. T. Shaw, 

 Levant, 1738, pp. 422, 428, G. Edwards, Nat. Hist. 1743- 1764, 

 Blumenbach, Phil. Trans. 1794, and later writers. 



The Sacred Ibis is said to nest in palm-trees, Ael. x. 29 rov^ alXovpovs 

 oTroStSpaa-Koi'cra, cf. Phile xvi ; according to Vierthaler, ap. Lenz, Z. d Gr. 

 u. R. p. 379, it breeds in Sennaar, nesting on mimosa-trees, and building 

 twenty to thirty nests on a tree : see also Heuglin, Ornith. Nord. 

 Afrikas, p. 1 138. 



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