BIRDS. GRALL.E. 36, 37. 55 



Glossy Ibis. Lewin t. 153. Donovan t. Ji8. JValcot t. 132. 



Length 2 feet. Hill ,5 inches long, roundish, curved, greenish- 

 blue : iris olive : eye. //^ brown : beneath the chin a loofe bald dila- 

 table skin : guill and tail green-gold with a red and violet gloss: 

 Itgs long, bright green : claws black, hooked. 



164. T. Faldnellus. Face black; head and neck pale 

 ferruginous: chin .with transverse white lines: body 

 dark chesnut mixed with green above, beneath paler : 

 wings and tail dusky. 



Bay Ibis. Sowerby Brit, niscel.p. 35. tab. 17. 



Length 2 feet 6 : extent 3 feet 2 : weight 18 ounces. 



Bill 5 inches long, horn-colour, dusky towards the bafe : iris 

 dusky : face naked : plumage dusky-chefnut, with a green aod 

 purple gloss, beneath duller : legs bluish horn-colour : middle-claut 

 pectinate on the inner-edge. 



36. NUMENIUS. Curlew. 



165. N. Arquata. Greyish-white with black streaks: 

 wings blackish with snowy spots : legs bluish-grey. 



Curlew. Br. Zcol. t . 63. Lew in" t. 154. Walcot t. 133. 



length 2. feet : extent 3 feet 3 : weight 25-30 ounces. 



Bi!l dusky, 4 inches and a half long : iris hazel : head, neck, sca- 

 pulars and wing-coverts brown-grey, the featlicrs black in the 

 middle : chin, rump, belly and vent white, with dusky fpots : tail 

 reddish-white, with dusky bars : legs bluish : toes flat and broad. 



166. N. Phccopus. Greyish- white with dusky spots, those 

 on the back and wing-coverts rhomboidal: quill- 

 feathers dusky, the borders of the inner-webs barred 

 with white : legs dusky-blue. 



Whimbrel. Br. Zool. t. 64,. Lewin t.i^^. Donovan t. 72. 



Length 18 inches : weight about 13 or 14 ounces. 



Very much reiembles the last, except in size ; and the fpots on 

 the back and wings are larger and of a more rhombic form, and the 

 quill-feathers are dusky and fpotted with white on their inner- 

 webs only. 



167. N. Guarauna. Head and neck brown with whitish 

 spots ; back and belly chesnut-brown : wing-coverts 

 rump and tail bright brown, with a green gloss. 



Brasilian Whimbrel. Will. Ornith. p. 292. t. 53. 



Shot a year or two since in Angle! ea. Dilluiyn. 



Body 21 inches long. Bill 4 inches long, arched, brown with a 

 yellowish bafe : feathers of the head and neck brown with a whitish 

 margin : fcapulars, rump, upper and under tail-coverts and tail bright 

 brown with a green gloss : luing-coverts the fame, the greater-ones 

 brown within : quills brown, the outer-ones with a green glois ; 

 legs grey-brown : claws black ish. 



168. N.pignuzus. Above variegated with brown, ferru- 

 ginous and white ; beneath and vent white : quills 

 and outer tail-feathers edged with white. 



37. SCOLOPAX. Stipe. 

 169. Sc, ritfft'wfc. Variegated with ferruginous black and 



