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ever, 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 

 branch 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 ad- 

 vantages that commerce would derive from peace. For 

 a drawing of this ancient seal, with various other par- 

 ticulars, and also for a notice of the occurrence of an Ibis 

 near the town of Fleetwood, on the river Wyre, I am 

 indebted to the kindness of John Skaife, Esq., of Black- 

 burn. 



The Rev. Hugh Davis, the friend of Pennant, has 

 noticed that a flock visited Anglesey, of which four or 

 five were shot. Mr. Couch, in his Cornish Fauna, says 

 that several specimens of the Ibis have occurred in Corn- 

 wall. Besides three formerly killed in Devonshire as re- 

 corded by Montagu, three others are mentioned by Dr. 

 Edward Moore, and one by Mr. Bellamy ; this last was 

 obtained in October, 1835, at Brideston, in South Devon. 

 I heard of one that was killed in Poole Harbour in 

 October, 1839, from the Earl of Malmesbury, and also 

 from J. C. Austin, Esq., of Ensbury, near Wimbourn. 

 Montagu mentions one that was killed in Berkshire ; 

 another was killed at Whitmore-pond, near Guildford, 

 in March, 1833, and J. C. Hurst, Esq., of Dartford, sent 

 me notice in 1837 of a specimen in his own collection that 

 had been shot on the bank of a fish-pond in that neigh- 

 bourhood. Many specimens have been obtained in Nor- 

 folk. The Rev. Richard Lubbock remarks that the Ibis 

 was probably fifty years back more common in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Lynn, Yarmouth, &c. : the old gunners used 



