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ORD. I. GENUS III. IBIS. 



Bill, long, flender, except at the bafe, where it is thick, incurvated. 



Face, and fometimes the whole head, naked. 



Nostrils, linear. 



Tongue, fhort. 



Toes, connecled at the bafe by a membrane. 



SPECIES I. GLOSSY IBIS. 

 PI. 153. 



The length of this bird is two feet. The bill is pretty much curved and 

 of a greeniih blue colour : the head and neck are of a deep crimfon : the quills 

 and tail are green gold, gloried with red and violet ; and the wing coverts are 

 not far different in colour : the reft of the body is blackifh blue, green, and 

 glofly chelhut, varying into each other in different lights : fo that the bird, 

 when flying in the fun, appears as if gilded : the legs are of a bright green. 

 The fkin beneath the chin isloofe, and capable of being dilated. 



This fpecies is faid to be pretty common in Ruffia, on the fhores of the 

 Don and other rivers, and to build its neft in trees. We have never heard of 

 more than one being found in England : it was (hot in Cornwall, is now in the 

 mufeum of Mr. Parkinfon, and from it our figure and defcription were taken. 



