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wards acquires increased brilliancy with age. This 

 species does not migrate, and lives in flocks, in 

 marshy places, near the mouths of rivers. It is easily 

 tamed. 



TJie Green Ibis. Vulg. Green Curhw, ScoL 

 Faldnellus. Lin. Enl. 819. Naum. 1. Ed. Sup- 

 28. Savig. Eg. Ois. pi. vii. f. 2. 



Body, of a purple brown red, with a deep green 

 mantle. The young have the head and neck pointed 

 with whitish. It is a fine bird, of the South of 

 Europe and North Africa ; and, according to all 

 appearances, the species which the ancients called 

 the Black Ibis. 



Add— 



White Ibis. Tant. Alhus, and T. Coco. Gm. Enl. 

 915. 



Round the eyes and chin, bare, and red ; plumage in 

 general, white ; ends of the first four quills, greenish- 

 black. Carolina. 



Crested Ibis. Tantalus Cristatus. Gm. Enl. 841. 



Sides of head, and round the eyes, bare, and pale ; 

 head, and part of neck, black ; at the back part a tuft 

 of very long feathers, half white, and half black, 

 Madagascar. The Ibis Leucopygus. Spix. 88. If, 

 indeed, it be not the young of Ruber. 



White-headed Ibis. Tant. Leucocephalus. Lath. 

 Bill, yellow ; forepart of head covered with a bare 



