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parties of what they called " Black Curlews." Mr. Selby 

 mentions one example, a young bird, now preserved in his 

 own collection, that was obtained on the Coquet near Roth- 

 bury, in the autumn of 1820 : from this specimen the re- 

 presentation of the Ibis published in some of the later 

 editions of Bewick's British Birds was taken. 



A fine adult bird of this species was killed on the borders 

 of the Loch of Kilconquhar on the coast of Fife, in Septem- 

 ber 1842. Mr. Hepburn, who shot the bird, called upon 

 me and made the communication. I believe this is the 

 first record of the capture of the Glossy Ibis in Scotland. 



Still further north, Muller includes the Ibis as a bird of 

 Denmark. M. Nilsson says it sometimes visits Sweden, 

 but very rarely, and it has appeared on some of the islands 

 of the Baltic. Wagler, in his Sy sterna Avium, page 182, 

 enumerates Iceland among the northern localities visited by 

 the Ibis ; but this bird is not included in the catalogues, by 

 the Fabers, and others, of the birds of Lapland, Norway, 

 the Faroe Islands, or Iceland. 



Specimens of this bird have been obtained by Dr. Andrew 

 Smith, nearly as far south in Africa as the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It is migratory in Egypt, where it appears to have 

 been held in the same veneration formerly as the Sacred 

 Ibis of authors : both species appear in the hieroglyphics of 

 that country, and many bodies of both preserved by em- 

 balming have been found at Memphis and Thebes. 



This bird appears to have been seen frequently by Messrs. 

 Dickson and Eoss in the vicinity of the river at Erzeroom ; 

 and the Naturalists with the Russian expedition met with 

 it in the countries between the Black and the Caspian 

 seas. 



Dr. Latham considered it a bird of India on the authority 

 of drawings made in that country, and Colonel Sykes has 



