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lower mandible in it for some time, and using it as a spoon 
to throw the liquid into their throat. The individual repre- 
sented in our plate was remarkable for playfulness and a kind 
of stupid good nature. During Mr Lawson’s almost daily 
visits for the purpose of measuring and examining accurately 
every part for his engraving, he became so familiar and well 
acquainted that he would pull the paper out of the artist's 
hands, or take the spectacles from his nose, so that Mr Lawson, 
seduced by these blandishments, and forgetting its character 
in other respects, does not hesitate to declare the condors the 
gentlest birds he-ever had to deal with. 
GLOSSY IBIS. (Lbis falcinellus.) 
PLATE XXIII.—Fie. 1. 
Tantalus falcinellus, Linn. Syst. i. p. 241, sp. 2.—Gmel. Syst. i. p. 648, sp. 2. — 
Lath. Ind. ii. p. T07, sp. 14.—Brunn. Orn. sp. 167.—Scop. Ann. i. sp. 131.— 
Kran. Austr. p. 350.—Borowsky, ii. p. 72.—Faun. Helv.—Reiz, Faun. 
Suec. p. 171, sp. 135.—WNilss. Orn. Suec. ii. p. 43, sp. 160.—Ibis falcinellus, 
Vieill. Now. Dict. ; Id. Enc. Met. Orn.—Temm. Man. Orn. ii. p. 598.— 
Savi. Orn. Tose. ii. p. 827.—Nob. Obs. Nom. Wils. Orn. note to No. 199 ; 
Id. Syn. Birds U.S. sp. 241; Id. Cat.; Id. Spec. Comp.—Wagler, Syst. 
Av. Ibis, sp. 1.—Roux, Orn. Prov. pl. 309.—Goldfuss, Nat. Atlas, pl. 95. 
—lIbis sacra, Temm. Man. Orn. 1st ed. p. 385.—Tantalus igneus, G'mel. 
Syst. i. p. 649, sp. 9.—Lath. Ind. ii. p. 708, sp. 16, very old individual.— 
Tantalus viridis, Gel. Syst. i. p. 648, sp. 8.—Lath. Ind. i. p. 707, sp. 15.— 
Montagu, in Linn. Trans. ix. p. 198.—Tantalus Mexicanus? Ord, in Journ. 
Ac. Philad. i. p. 53 (and perhaps of other authors; in that case the Acalot 
of Ray and Buffon, and its derivatives).*—Numenius castaneus, Briss. Orn. 
v. p. 329, sp. 5.; Id. 8vo, ii. p. 294 (old indiv.)—Numenius viridis, Briss. 
Orn. v. p. 326, sp. 4, t. 27, fig. 2.; Id. 8vo, ii. p. 293, two years old. — 
* The following are the indications of that obscure species, the 
Mexican Ibis :—Tantalus Mexicanus, Gimel. Syst. 1. p. 652, sp. 18.— 
Lath. Ind, ii. p. 704, sp. 4.—Ibis Mexicana of later compilers ; Ibis 
acalot of French compilers and dictionaries—Numenius Mexicanus 
varius, Briss. v. p. 385, sp. 7; Id. 8vo, 1. p. 295.—Acacolotl, Ray, 
Syn. p. 104, sp. 5—Will. p. 218; Id. Engl. p. 296.—Acalot, Buff. Otis. 
viii. p. 45.—Mexican Ibis, Lath. Syn. ili. pt. 1, p. 108, sp. 5 ; Ld. Gen. 
Hist, ix. p. 146, sp. 5. This bird is said to inhabit Mexico : it will not 
be superfluous to remark that the proportions assigned to it are much 
larger than those of our [bis falcinellus, 
