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1. Gurossy. 
DeEscrip- 
TION. 
GLOSSY IBIS. Crass IL. 
GENUS III. IBIS. 
Bit long, roundish, incurvated. 
Lorum, bare of feathers. 
TonGuE short. +t aoyin. catede 
Fret of four toes, the three foremost connected 
at their base by a web. 
Tantalus Falcinellus. T. facie Falcinellus. Wil. orn. 295. 
nigra, pedibus czruleis, alis Raii Syn. av. 103. 
caudaque violaceis, corpore Le Courlis verd. Brisson av. 
castaneo. Lath. Ind. orn. v. 326. Hist. dois. viii. 29. 
707. id. Syn. v. 113. id. Le Courlis d'Italie. Pl. Enl. 
Sup. i. 67. 819. 
Tantalus igneus. T. corpore Gm. Lin. 648. 
nigricante ceruleo viridi et Scopolt, 1. No. 131. 
vinaceo variegato nitente, Sowerby. Br. Misc. 35. tab. 
capite colloque nigris pennis 17. Nat. Misc. tab. '705. 
albido fimbriatis. Jd. Ind.  Arct. Zool. ii. 162. 
orn. 708. zd. Syn. v. 115.2? 
[DR. Latham thus describes a specimen of his 
Glossy Ibis, shot in Cornwall, and preserved in 
the late Leverian museum. 
“‘ Length almost two feet. Bill five inches,. 
smooth, roundish, much bent, green, fading to 
olive when dead; eyelids brown; irides olive ; 
eyes placed in a white space; under the chin a 
