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IBIS. 



Place. This inhabits Italy, fome parts of Germany, and is alfo very 



common about the Cqfpian and Black Seas, afcending up the ri- 

 vers to breed. Frequent in flocks about the lakes ; but none feen 

 in Sibiria, though faid to be met with in Denmark*, where it is 

 called Ryle-Domjneppe. 



, 2 , Le Courly matron, Brif. Orn, v. p. 329. 5. 



Var. A. 



tx HP HE plumage in this is moftly of a glofly chefnut, and the 



Description. r t> 1 o j 



bread has a green tinge. It is moft likely a variety of the 

 lad defcribed, and found on the fhores of the Danube. 



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GREEN I. 



Description. 



Numenius viridis, N. C. Pen: xv. p. 462, t. 19. (Gmelin.) 



I ZE of the Curlew : length nineteen inches and a half. Bill 

 three inches and a half; much bent, fmooth, and of a lead- 

 coloured brown ; the lower mandible flefli-colour at the fides, 

 and beneath : irides pale : between the bill and eyes black, rough, 

 and naked : under the chin the fkin is dilatable, forming a fmall 

 pouch : above the eye a white fpot, beginning behind, and tend- 

 ing to the hind head : on the crown two or three irregular fpots 

 of the fame ; excepting thefe fpots the head is blackifh, the fea- 

 thers margined with a pale colour: chin blackifh, marked with 

 fmall whitifh fpots : neck greyifh black ; on the upper part be- 

 fore three tranfverfe whitifh bands, with a fourth beneath them, 

 but lefs diftincl : back and tail green gold : rump, breaft, belly, 

 and thighs, blackifh brown : wing coverts and quills deep fhining 

 green, giofled with blue : legs and claws deep black. 



* Muller. Brunnhh, 



This 



