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the “ Zoologist” (p. 2879), “a very beautiful adult 
specimen was shot 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. Rising, 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. 
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