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IBIS, GLOSSY. 
Ipis FALCINELLUS, Temm. 
This bird is extensively dispersed from India and 
Egypt to Siberia and the northern parts of Europe, 
and even to America. Although many individuals 
have been obtained in England, it ranges only as 
a straggler in this country. Like the White Ibis, 
from which it was distinguished by the name of the 
Black Ibis, it was held in veneration by the 
ancient Egyptians, and figures of it are not un- 
frequently found in their sepulchres. It is one of 
the species that approach nearest in form to the 
Curlew; and it resembles the Heron in its habits 
and the choice of food, as well as in its mode of 
nesting. The eggs are of a bluish green hue. 
JACKDAW. 
Corvus MONEDULA, Lin. 
This well-known species is generally dispersed 
throughout England and Scotland, inhabiting de- 
serted buildings, steeples, towers, and high rocks, 
and breeding in these places or in rabbit-burrows. 
The eggs, which vary from four to seven in num- 
ber, are of a pale greenish blue, with small round 
spots of a dark brown and pale purplish hue. Al- 
though vigilant and suspicious in its nature, it often 
