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to talk of having, in their youth, often seen small parties 

 of what they called " Black Curlews." Mr. Selby men- 

 tions one example, a young bird, now preserved in his 

 own collection, that was obtained on the Coquet near 

 Rothbury, in the autumn of 1820: from this specimen 

 the representation of the Ibis published in some of the 

 later editions of Bewick's British Birds was taken. 



A fine adult bird of this species was killed on the 

 borders of the Loch of Kilconquhar, on the coast of 

 Fife, in September, 1842. Mr. Hepburn, who shot 

 the bird, called upon me and made the communication. 

 I believe this is the first record of the capture of the 

 Glossy Ibis in Scotland. 



Of recent occurrences, I may mention one killed at 

 Lough Dun, county of Longford, in November, 1851 ; 

 one killed in the marshes of Earnly, Sussex, in November, 

 1853 ; two seen near Shrewsbury, one of them shot, as 

 recorded by the Honourable T. L. Powys ; and one near 

 Christchurch harbour ; these last two in 1854. 



Miiller includes the Ibis as a bird of Denmark. M. 

 Nilsson says it sometimes visits Sweden, but very rarely, 

 and it has appeared on some of the islands of the Baltic. 

 Wagler, in his Sy sterna Avium, page 182, enumerates Ice- 

 land among the northern localities visited by the Ibis ; but 

 this bird is not included in the catalogues, 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 : both species appear in the hiero- 

 glyphics of that country, and many bodies of both preserved 

 by embalming have been found at Memphis and Thebes. 



