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visited by the Ibis ; but this bird is not included in the cata- 

 logues, by the Fabers, and others, of the birds of Lapland, 

 Norway, the Faroe islands, or Iceland. 



Specimens of this bird have been obtained by Dr. Andrew 

 Smith, nearly as far south in Africa as the Cape of Good. 

 Hope. It is migratory in Egypt, where it appears to have 

 been held in the same veneration formerly as the Sacred Ibis 

 of authors : many bodies of both species, preserved by em- 

 balming, having been found at Memphis and Thebes. 



This bird appears to have been seen frequently by Messrs. 

 Dickson and Ross in the vicinity of the river at Erzeroom ; 

 and the Naturalists with the Russian expedition met with it 

 in the countries between the Black and the Caspian seas. 



Dr. Latham considered it a bird of India on the authority 

 of drawings made in that country, and Colonel Sykes has 

 since brought specimens from the Dukhun, According to 

 M. Temminck specimens of this same Ibis have been ob- 

 tained at Java, at Sunda, and some of the neighbouring 

 islands in the eastern seas. 



The Glossy Ibis was first made known as an inhabitant of 

 the United States of North America, by Mr. George Ord, 

 the friend, the companion, and the biographer of Alexander 

 Wilson. Though a rare bird in the Northern States, several 

 examples have been obtained. Mr. Nuttall, in his Orni- 

 thology of the United States and Canada, says, that a speci- 

 men has occasionally been exposed for sale in the market of 

 Boston. Mr. Audubon says, " it exists in vast numbers in 

 Mexico. In the spring of 1837 I saw flocks in the Texas, 

 but even there it is only a summer resident along the grassy 

 margins of the rivers and bayous, and apparently going to 

 and from its roosting places in the interior of the country." 

 The bird figured by Mr. Audubon in his splendid work was 

 obtained in Florida, and this Ibis has been figured as the 

 Brasilian Curlew from specimens obtained in Brazil. 



