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IBIS. 



GLOSSY IBIS. BAT IBIS. GBEEN IBIS. 



Ibis falcinellus, FLEMING. SELBY. 



" ignea, STEPHENS. 



Tantalus falcinettus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Numenius viridis, BKISSON. 



Ibis The Greek name of a bird. Falcinellus. .Fate A hook, from 



the shape of the bill. 



THIS Ibis, though of a different species from that which, 

 worshipped by the Egyptians of old, obtained thence the 

 name of Sacred, appears to have been also regarded by them 

 with some degree of veneration, as its remains are found 

 with those of the other bird, preserved still, after the lapse 

 of so many thousands of years, in the mummies of the 

 catacombs. 



In Europe, it occurs on its travels in the islands of the 

 Archipelago of Greece, and in Sicily, Sardinia, Italy, Switzerland, 

 France, Holland, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and the southern 

 parts of Eussia. It is also included among the birds of 

 Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and has been seen according 

 to Wagler, in Iceland. It belongs likewise to northern Africa 

 in Egypt, and again southwards, even to the Cape of Good 

 Hope. In Asia, too, in India, in the Dukkun; in Persia, 

 Syria, Thibet, and the districts between the Black Sea and 

 the Caspian Sea, and in the islands of. Sunda and Java, and 

 others. Lastly, in America examples have, it is said, occurred; 

 several in the United States, and in Canada, and in Mexico 

 it exists in vast numbers, according to Audubon; as also in 

 Florida, and the Brazils; but the Prince of Canino considers 

 the species as a different one, and thinks that this continent 

 has been wrongly given to the bird at present under con- 

 sideration. 



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