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GENUS LXXVIII.— IBIS. 



1 Wood Ibis 



2 Cangui 



3 Scarlet 



4 Cayenne 



5 Mexican 



6 Bare-faced 



7 White-necked 



8 Brown 



9 White 

 A Var. 



10 Plumbeous 



11 Grey 



12 Chili 



13 Minute 



14 Crying 



15 Bay 



16 Green 



17 Glossy 



18 Bald 



19 Manilla 



20 Crested 



21 Black-headed 



22 Bare-necked 



23 Dhalac 



24 Ethiopian 



25 White-headed 



26 Pavonine 



27 Egyptian 



28 Theban 



29 Black 



30 Yellow-headed 



31 New-Holland 



32 Black-faced 



BlLL long, thick at the base, incurvated. Nostrils linear. 

 The face, and sometimes the whole head, naked. 

 Tongue short. 

 Toes connected at the base by a membrane. 



1 — WOOD IBIS. 



Tantalus Loculator, Ind. Orn. ii. 702. Lin. i. 240. Gm. Lin. i. 647. Klein, 127. C. 



Borowsk. iii. 71. t. 47. Amer. Orn. viii. p. 39. pi. 66. f. 1. 

 Numenius Americanus major, Bris. v. 335. Id. 8vo. ii. 295. 

 Numenius niger, Klein, 109. 

 Tantale, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. ciii. 



Couricaca, Buf. v. 276. PL enl. 86S. Damp. Voy. iii. 196. f. 2. 

 Wood Pelican, Cat. Car. i. pi. 8!. Bartr. Trav. 291. 

 Wood Ibis, Gen. Syn. v. 104. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 360. 



SIZE of a Goose; length three feet to the tail, but to the toes 

 sixteen inches longer; breadth five feet eight inches. The Bill is 

 stout, nine inches long, and bent downwards towards the tip ; the 

 colour yellowish brown ; irides pale rufous ; fore part of the head, 

 and round the eyes, covered with a blue skin ; from the head to the 



