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Genus LXVI. IBIS. 



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i. Wood Ibis. 



N° 11. Black I. 



1. Scarlet I. 



12. Bay I. 



3. Cayenne I. 



Var. A. 



4. Mexican I. 



13. Green I. 



5. Black-faced I. 



14. Glofiy I. 



6. White-necked I. 



15. White-headed I. 



7. Grey I. 



16. Bald I. 



8. Brown I. 



17. Manilla I. 



9. White I. 



18. LefTer I. 



0. Egyptian I. 



19. Crefted I. 



ILL long, thick at the bafe, incurvated. 

 Face, and fometimes the whole head, naked. 

 Noftrils linear. 



Tongue fhort. 



Toes connected at the bafe by a membrane. 



WOOD I. 



Description; 



Tantalus ioculator, Lin. Syft. i. p. 240. 1. 



Le grand Courli d'Amerique, Brif. Orn. v. p. 335. 8. 



Couricaca, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 276. — PI. Enl. 868. — Rail Syn. p. 103. 4.— 



Will. Orn. p. 295. pi. 54— Damp. Voy. iii. pi. in p. 96. fig. 2. 

 Wood Pelican, Catefi. Car. i. pi. 81. — Ar3. Zool. N D 360. 



C I Z E of a Goofe : length three feet. The bill is ftout, nine 



inches in length, and bends downwards towards the tip; the 



colour of it yellowifh brown : irides pale rufous : the fore part 



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