IBIS. 113 



met with, except in the neighbourhood of" IDamietta*. It is by 

 fome fuppofed to be the fame with the white fpecies; which it 

 probably may, if we allow it to be the young one, as fome white 

 birds are black before they come to maturity of plumage f : au- 

 thors have however been able to hand us down fo little concern- 

 ing it, that we fhall perhaps remain for a long time, before we 

 afcertain the circumftance. 



Tantalus falcinellus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 241. z.—Brun. 167. — Mutter, N° 178. I2 . 



—Scop. Ann. i. N° 131. — Kram. El. p. 350. 2. BAY I. 



Le Courly verd, Brif. Orn. v. p. 326. 4. pi. 27. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. viii. 



p. 29. 

 Courtis d'ltalie, PL Enl. 819. 

 Falcinellus, or Sithe-bill, Rail Sjn. p. 103. A, 3. — Will. Orn. p. 295. 



pi. 54. 

 Bay Ibis, Arc!. Zool. p. 460. A. 



Lev. Muf. 



C I Z E of our Curlew : length one foot nine inches. Bilinear Description. 



four inches long, and brown : from the bill, all round the 

 eye, bare, and dufky green : the head and neck are chefnut, verg- 

 ing to brown on the headj where the feathers have pale edges : 

 the upper parts of the body are gloffy green, appearing bronzed 

 in different lights : the breaft, belly, and under parts, are brown, 

 with a glofs of green gold on the breaft : quills and tail darker 

 than the back, and with very little glofs : legs dufky blue : be- 

 tween each toe a fmall membrane at the bafe. 



• Circa Pelujium tantum nigra eft, csteris omnibus locis Candida, — Pirn, 

 x. 30. 



f Inftanced in the Egret, Red Ibis, and many others. 



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