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Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson, who recorded its capture in the 

 Zoolofiist for 1874, and who tells me that it was shot on 

 Marton Mere near Poulton, in the year 1859. Much has 

 been written on the identity of this species with the 

 Liver, the traditional bird from which the city of Liver- 

 pool is said to take its name, but Yarrell, I think, 

 exhausts the subject when he remarks (oj). cit. ii. 

 pp. 605-6), " The arms of the town of Liverpool are 

 comparatively modern, and seem to have no reference 

 to the Ibis. The bird has been adopted in the arms of 

 the Earl of Liverpool, and in a recent edition of ' Burke's 

 Peerage ' is described as a Cormorant holding in the beak 

 a bunch of sea- weed. In the Plantagenet Seal of Liver- 

 pool, which is believed to be of the time of King John, 

 the bird has the appearance of a Dove bearing in its bill 

 a sprig of olive, apparently intended to refer to the 

 advantages that commerce would derive from peace." 



