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modern, and seem to have no reference to the Ibis. The 

 bird has been adopted in the arms of the Earl of Liverpool, 

 and in a recent edition of Burke's Peerage is described as a 

 Cormorant holding in the beak a branch of sea-weed. In 

 the Plantagenet seal of Liverpool, which is believed to be 

 of the time of King John, the bird has the appearance of a 

 Dove with a sprig of olive, apparently intended to refer to 

 the advantages that commerce would derive from peace. 

 For a drawing of this ancient seal, with various other par- 

 ticulars, and also for a notice of the recent occurrence of an 

 Ibis near the town of Fleetwood, on the river Wyre, I am 

 indebted to the kindness of John Skaife, Esq., of Black- 

 burn. 



The Kev. Hugh Davis, the friend of Pennant, has noticed 

 that a flock visited Anglesey, of which four or five were 

 shot. Mr. Couch, in his Cornish Fauna, says that several 

 specimens of the Ibis have occurred in Cornwall. Besides 

 three formerly killed in Devonshire as recorded by Montagu, 

 three others are mentioned by Dr. Edward Moore, and one 

 by Mr. Bellamy ; this last was obtained in October 1835 at 

 Brideston in South Devon. I heard of one that was killed 

 in Poole Harbour in October 1839 from the Earl of Malmes- 

 bury, and also from J. C. Austin, Esq., of Ensbury near 

 Wimbourn. Montagu mentions one that was killed in 

 Berkshire ; another was killed at Whitmore-pond, near 

 Guildford, in March 1833, and J. C. Hurst, Esq., of Dart- 

 ford, sent me notice in 1837 of a specimen in his own collec- 

 tion that had been shot on the bank of a fish-pond in that 

 neighbourhood. Many specimens have been obtained in 

 Norfolk. The Rev. Richard Lubbock remarks that the 

 Ibis was probably fifty years back more common in the 

 neighbourhood of Lynn, Yarmouth, &c. : the old gunners 

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



