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IBIS, GLOSSY. 



IBIS FALCIKELLUS, 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 unfrequently 

 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. 



COEYUS MONEDTJLA, Lin. 



This well-known species is generally distributed 

 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. 

 Although vigilant and suspicious in its nature, it 



