BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE IBIS. 



GLOSSY IBIS. 



(Jbis FakinelluS) Temm. Ibis f ale in die, Temm.) 



THE stuffed specimen, from which our figure was 

 taken, was obligingly lent to this work by P. J. 

 Selby, Esq., of Twizell House ; it was a male bird, 

 shot on the banks of the Coquet, near Rothbury, 

 in the autumn of 1820, and appears to be in the 

 changing state of plumage, described by Montagu, 

 as approaching the Glossy Ibis. He says, the 

 weight of a fresh specimen of this kind, in his 

 possession, was about eighteen ounces; length 

 twenty-two inches; breadth two feet nine inches. 

 Latham thus describes the Bay Ibis : " Bill nearly 



