130 IBIS. 



One was obtained in Devonshire, in 1839; in Norfolk, a 

 pair were shot at the mouth of the Norwich river, September, 

 13th., 1824; there were four more in company with them: 

 others have been met with in that county. Arthur Havers, 

 Esq., of Tenterden, Kent, informs me of one killed near 

 Reading-street, on the borders of Eomney Marsh, in that 

 county, in December, 1852; another was shot near Dartford, 

 in 1837. In Surrey, one was procured on Whitemore Pond, 

 near Gruildford, in May, 1833; and Meyer saw a flock of birds 

 which he believed to be of this species, pass over Fairmile 

 Common, about the year 1837, in September. 



In the 'Western Times,' of October llth., 1851, it was 

 recorded that a specimen of this exceedingly rare and interesting 

 British visitor was shot at Holsworthy, in North Devon, a 

 few days before the above date; it was on the 7th. of 

 September; one also at Bridestowe, in October, 1835, and 

 three others also elsewhere; in that county, two were formerly 

 procured, as recorded by Montagu, and another in 1805. In 

 Northumberland, one, shot on the bank of the Coquet, near 

 Eothbury, in the autumn of 1820. In Lancashire, one; in 

 Cornwall, several; in Dorsetshire, one, near Poole, in October, 

 1839. N. Eowe, Esq., of Worcester College, has also obligingly 

 directed my attention to this instance of the occurrence of 

 this very rare bird. One, of which Mr. M. C. Cooke has 

 informed me, was shot in a pond at Swanscombe, in Kent; 

 another, a male bird, nearly in adult plumage, of the occur- 

 rence of which Mr. John Shaw is my informant, was shot at 

 Albrighton, Salop, October 3rd., 1853; another was in company 

 with it at the time. Mr. William Franklin has also written 

 to me of this specimen. Four or five were shot out of a 

 flock in the Isle of Anglesea. In Berkshire, one. 



In Ireland, one was met with on Lough Dun, in the county 

 of Longford, about the 20th. of November, 1852. 



The Ibis has its vernal and autumnal migrations, north 

 and south, the former in March and April, and the latter 

 in August and September. 



They generally live in societies, and frequent the shores of 

 lakes and ponds, the banks of rivers, and any moist places. 

 They are wild birds, and not easily approached, both from 

 this cause and the nature of the localities they inhabit. 



'The flight of the Ibis is very peculiar, especially during 

 its migration, when such numbers of them may be seen on 

 the wing that they are rarely to be counted; and each flock 



