384 AVES. 
Others have scutellatéd legs; their beak, most commonly, is more 
slender. 
Ib. rubra; Scol. rubra, L.; Tantal. ruber, Gm.; Enl. 80 and 815 
Wils, VIII, Ixvi, 2. (The Red Ibis.) A bird found in all the 
hot parts of America, remarkable for its bright red colour; the 
tips of the wing-quills are black. The young ones, at first co- 
vered with a blackish down, become cinereous, and, when ready 
to fly, whitish; in two years the red makes its appearance, and 
_continues to increase in lustre with age. This species does not 
migrate, and lives in flocks in marshy spots in the vicinity of 
estuaries. It is easily domesticated. 
Scol. falcinellus, L.; Courlis vert, Enl. 819; Naum. Ed. 1, Supp. 
28, Savig. Eg. Ois. pl. vii, f. 9. (The Green Ibis.) A purple 
brown-red; mantle of a deep green; the head and neck of the 
young marked with whitish dots. It is a beautiful bird of south- 
ern Europe, and of northern Africa, and most probably the spe- 
cies denominated by the ancients the Black Ibis.(1) 
Numentus, Cuv.(2) 
The Curlews have the beak arcuated like that of the Ibis, but it 
is more slender, and round throughout: the tip of the upper man- 
dible extends beyond the end of the lower one, and projects a little 
downwards in front of it. The toes are palmated at base. 
Scol. arcuata, L., Enl. 818; Frisch, 224; Naum. 5, f. 5. (The 
Curlew of Europe.) Is the size of a Capon; brown; the edges of 
all the feathers, whitish; rump, white; tail, striped with white 
and brown. Common along the coast of Europe, and in transitu 
in the interior. Its name is derived from its cry.(3) 
the coverts less slender, and partly varied with white; long and pointed feathers 
on the upper part of the breast, (bis molucca, Cuv.) and another in Bengal, with 
but slightly attenuated ash coloured coverts (/bis bengala, Cuv.). 
Add Ib. papillosa, T. Col. 304;—Tunt. caluus, Gm., Enl. 867;—L bis nudifrons, 
Spix, 86;—Jb. oxycercus, 1d. 87;—T". albicollis, Gm. or Curicaca of Marcgr., Enl. 
976;—Tant. cayennensis, Gm., Enl. 820;—Ibis plumbeus, T. Col. 235;—T'ant. 
melanopis, Gm.; Lath., 111, a Ixxix;—J6. chalcoptera, Vieill. Gal. 246, or T'ant. 
hogedash, Lath. 
(1) Add Tantalus albusand T. coco, Gm.; Enl. 193;—T. cristatus, 1d. ; Enl. 841;— 
Ibis leucopygus, Spix, 88, if it should not prove to be the young of the ruber;— 
T'ant. leweocephalus, Lath., U1, pl. xxx, 2. [N.B. The J. fuscus of Gm. is the 
young of the 7. albus, Id. Am. Ed.] 
(2) Numenius, derived from néoménie, new moon, on account of its crescert 
shaped beak. 
(3) Add the Courlis a méches étroites of the Cape (Num. virgatus, C.), Enl. 198;— 
the C. a m. ét. of India (IV. lineatus);—the Num. longirostris, Wils. of America, 
Am. Orn. II, xxiv, 4;—Mum. hudsonius, Id. LXVI, f. 1. 
