IBIS. n; 



This has the fame haunts as the next fpecies, and feeds in the Place and 

 fame manner, being often found together ; but differs in not anners. 



foaring fo high, rather fkimming along the air, fomewhat in the 

 nature of the Swallow. It feems to have great affinity to the 

 Bay Ibis. 



Numenius igneus, N. C. Petr. xv. p. 460. 1. 18. {Gmelin). 14. 



Lev. Muf. GLOSSY I. 



ENGTH almoft two feet. Bill five inches, fmooth, round- Description. 

 ifh, much bent, green, fading to olive when dead : eye-lids 

 brown: irides olive: eyes placed in a white fpace : under the 

 chin a fmall dilatable pouch : head and neck black ; the feathers 

 fringed with white : the reft of the body variegated with blackifh 

 blue, green, and vinaceous, and in general very glofiy ; hence the 

 bird, in flying, appears gilded when the fun fhines upon it: 

 quills green gold, and when clofed reach the end of the tail : 

 wing coverts next the body reddifh and blue mixed ; the next 

 feries black, red, and green ; the laft, and quills, green gold : 

 tail the fame, glofled in different lights with red and violet: legs 

 very long, of a bright green : claws crooked, black. 



This inhabits Rujfta, chiefly the fhores of the Don, and about Place. 



the Choper : lives on fifh and Infects : flies in flocks, and builds 

 on trees. In the Leverian Mufeum is one of thefe, which was 

 fnot in Cornwall. 



0^2 Tantalus 



