144 ibis. 



will give it the character of an Ibis, rather than the Jabiru, which 

 on the contrary curves upwards ; yet the bird having the plumage 

 wholly white, and a bare neck, independent of the bill, would rank 

 it with the Jabiru, with which Brisson* has joined it, along with his 

 other synonyms. 



3.-SCARLET IBIS. 



Tantalus ruber, Ind. Om.u. 703. Lin.i. 241. Gni. Lin.\. 651. Scop. i„ No. 130. 



Spalowsck. iii. t. 29. Nat. Misc. pi. 120. Amir. Orn.m. pi. 06. f. 2. 

 Numenius Brasiliensis coccineus, Bris. v. 344. t,29. f. 1. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 298. 

 Numenius coccineus Sinensis, Gerin. iv. t. 442. 

 Guara, Rail, 104. Will. 219. t. 54. Sloan. Jam. 317. Pernet. Voy. i. 183. Harris, 



Coll. Voij. i. 728. Ulloa, Voy.W. 228? 

 Der rothe Nimmersatt, Schmid, Vog. p. 120. t. 105. 

 Avis Porphyrio, Seba, i. 98. t. 62. f. 3. Klein, 124. 11. 

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

 Le Courlis rouge, Buf. viii. 35. PL enl. 80. 81. 

 Chirlito, Ave de Rio, Gabin. de Madrid, i. p. 25. lam. 12. 

 Red Curlew, Cat. Car. i. pi. 84. Hist. Guian. 172. 

 Scarlet Ibis, Gen. Syn. v. 106. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 361. Will. Engl. 296. Ch. V, pi. 



54. f. 6. — Guara. 



THIS beautiful bird is twenty-one inches long, of which the 

 bill is six inches and a half, and pale red ; the base of it passes a 

 little way back on the forehead; eyes black; sides of the head, quite 

 beyond the eyes, bare, and pale red ; the whole plumage glowing- 

 scarlet, except four of the outer prime quills, which are of a glossy 

 blue black, for two or three inches from their end ; the shafts of the 

 quills and tail white; legs pale red. 



The female is much the same, but the colours less lively. 



Inhabits most parts of America, within the tropics ; also pretty 

 common in East Florida ; a few seen in the South of Carolina, and 

 sometimes in Georgia, but at the last place as a rare bird. In some 

 of the West India Islands is in great plenty, especially the Bahamas; 



* Orn. v. p. 371. 



