Crass Il. GLOSSY IBIS. 
small dilatable pouch; head and neck: black ; 
the feathers fringed ‘with white ; the rest of the 
body variegated with blackish blue-green, and 
is vinaceous, and in general very glossy, hence 
the bird, on flying, appears gilded when the sun 
shines upon it; quils green gold, and when 
closed reach the end of the tail ; wing coverts 
next: the body reddish and blue’ mixed; the 
next series, black, red, and green; the last and 
quils green gold; tail the same, glossed in dif- 
ferent lights: with red and violet; legs very 
long, of a bright green; claws crooked, black.” 
Our friend, the reverend Hugh Davies, com- 
municated a drawing of the same bird to Dr. 
* The editor subjoins the following note at Mr. Davies's 
request, though the reader may agree with him in thinking that 
the mistake into’ which that able naturalist accidentally fell, 
does not require so ample an apology. 
“< As it is and ever has been fully my wish that no mistake, 
which I may haye it in'‘my power to rectify (particularly if such 
may have originated by my means) shall remain unadjusted; I 
haye, with no very small degree of anxiety, been thinking of a 
method to make-a necessary apology to my friend Dr.\Shaw,) 
and the public, for ‘an: inaccurate. communication which I. 
unfortunately made-to him, and which he has inserted in. No., 
190 of the Naturalist’ s-Miscellany, respecting the bird. which .L 
mistook for a Scolopar -of Linnaeus, a Numenius of Dr. La=' 
tham; I beg leave at: the same, time 'to do. myself. the justice, 
of stating how. the mistake took place... The, subject, from. 
which I made the drawing and took the description, forms.a 
part of the collection of the ingenious Miss Meyrick at Beauma- 
ris; 1 did not see the bird till it was converted into a picture. 
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