420 GLOSSY IBIS. 
Numenius viridis, S. G. Gmel. Reis. i. p. 167.; Id. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. 
xv. p. 462, t. 19, young.—Numenius igneus, S. G. Gimel. Reis. i. p. 166; 
Id. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. xv. p. 460, t. 18, old specimen.—Tringa 
autumnalis, Hasselquist, Iter Palest. ii. p. 306, sp. 26, 27, two years old.— 
Falcinellus, Gesner, Av. p. 220.—Faleata, Gesner, Ic. Av. p. 116, with a 
bad figure.—Falcinellus, sive Avis falcata, Aldrov. Av. ili. p. 422 and 423. 
—Johnston, Av. p. 105.—Charleton, Hxcit. p. 110, sp. 7; Ld. Onomatz, p. 
103, sp. 7.—Falcinellus Gesneri et Aldrovandi, Willoughby, Orn. p. 218.— 
Arcuata minor, &c., Marsigli, Danub. v. p. 42, tab. 18, adult ; 20, young.— 
Numenius subaquilus, Alein, Av. p. 110, sp. 8.—Falcinellus or Sithebill, 
Ray, Av. p. 103, sp. 3.—Will. Orn. p. 295, tab. 54; Id. Engl. p. 295, 
tab. 54, fig. 4.—Le Fauconneau ! Falcinellus, Salerne, Orn. p. 322.—Courlis 
Vert, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 29 (ed. 1783), viii. p. 379.—Vers. Germ. Otto, xxii. p. 
170.—Courlis d’Italie, Buff. Pl. ent. 819, adult male.—Courlis Brillant, 
Sonnini, Buff. Otis. xxii. p. 238, old female.—Ibis Vert, Cuv. Regn. Anim. 
i. p. 485; Id. 2d ed. i. p. 520.—Roux, loco citato.—Savigny, Egypt. Ois. 
tab. vii. left-hand fig., two years old.—Ibis Noir, Savign. Hist. Nat. e¢ 
Mythol. de VIbis, p. 36, tab. 4.—Ibis Sacré, Temm. Man. Orn. 1st ed., but 
not of Cuvier.—Ibis Falcinelle, of most French authors and of the Diction- 
aries.—Chiurlo, &c., Storia degli Uccelli, ix. p. 439, old male.—Ibi Falcinello, 
Ranzani, Elem. ii. pt. viii. p. 185, sp. 3.—Mignattajo, Savi. loco citato.— 
Bay Ibis, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 460, A.—Lath. Syn. iii. pt. i. p. 118, sp. 
13; Id. Suppl. p. 67, Germ. trans. by Bechst. v. p. 67, tab. 81, young.— 
Lath. Gen. Hist. ix. p. 152, sp. 15.—Brit. Miscell. tab. 18.—Montag. Orn. 
Dict. Suppl.—Green Ibis, Lath. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 114, sp. 13, young.—Lin- 
nean Trans. ix. p. 198.—Montag. Orn. Dict. Suppl.—Lath. Gen. Hist. ix. p. 
154, sp. 18.—Glossy Ibis, Zath. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 115, sp. 14, old specimen ; 
Id. Gen. Hist. ix. p. 154, sp. 17.—Brit. Zool. 1812, ii. p. 30.—Montag. 
Orn. Dict. Suppl.—Brazilian Curlew, Vat. Miscell. tab. 705 ?—Sichelsnab- 
liger Nimmerzatt, Bechst. Nat. Deutschl. iv. p. 116.—Meyer and Wolf, Tasch. 
Deutschl. Vog. ii. p. 352.—Naum. Vog. Nacht. t. 28, adult male.—Braune 
Ibis, Brehm, Lehrb. Eur. Vog. ii. p. 528.—Philadelphia Museum. 
THOUGH if may appear very extraordinary, it is not less true, 
that one of the two species of ibis worshipped by the ancient 
Egyptians, their black ibis, has a claim to be included in our 
work as being an occasional visitant of the eastern shores of 
these States. This fact, which we would be among the first 
to disbelieve were we to read of it in the eloquent pages of 
Buffon, is authenticated by the specimen here figured, which, 
moreover, is not a solitary instance of the kind. Thus, instead 
of being limited to a peculiar district of Egypt, as stated by 
Pliny, Solinus, and others, and reiterated by the host of com- 
piers, this celebrated bird is only limited in its irregular 
wanderings by the boundaries of the globe itself. 

