BIRDS. GRAfcL.'E. 36, 37. 55 



Glossy Ibis, Lewin t. 153. Donovan t. 118. Wakot t. 132. 



Length 2 feet. 2k7/ 5 inches long, roundish, curved, greenish- 

 blue : /r/j olive : eyelids brown : beneath the chin a loofe bald dila- 

 table skin : quill and ta?7 green-gold with a red and violet gloss: 

 legs long, bright green : claws black, hooked. 



(01. T. Faldnellus. Face black; head and neck pale 

 ferruginous: chin with transverse white lines: body 

 dark chesnut mixed with green above, beneath paler : 

 wings and tail dusky. 



Bay Ibis. Sower by Brit, miscel. p. 35. tab. 17. 



Length 2 feet 6 : extent 3 feet 2 : weight 18 ounces. 



Bill 5 inches long, horn-colour, dusky towards the bafe : iris 

 dusky : face naked ; plumage dusky-chefnut, with a green and 

 purple gloss, beneath duller : legs bluish horn-colour : viiddle~claw 

 pectinate on the inner-edge. 



36. NUMENIUS. Curlew. 

 165. IS". Arquata, Greyish-white with black streaks: 

 wings blackish with snowy spots : legs bluish-grey. 



. Curlew. Br. Zool. t.63. Lewin t. 154. Walcot t, 133. 



Length 2 feet : extent 3 feet 3 : iveight 25-30 ounces. 



Bill dusky, 4 inches and a half long ; iris hazel : head, neck, sca- 

 pulars and wing-coverts brown-grey, the feathers black in the 

 middle; chin, rump, belly and vent white> with dusky fpots : tail 

 reddish-white, with dusky bars : legs bluish : toes flat and broad. 



16Q. N. Phceopus* Greyish- white with dusky spots, those 

 on the back and wing-coverts rhomboidal: quill- 

 feathers dusky, the borders of the inner-webs barred 

 with white : legs dusky-blue. 



Whimbrel. Br. Zool. t. 64., Lewin t. 155, Donovan t. 72, 



Length t8 inches : weight about 13 or 14 ounces. 



Very much refembles the last, except in size ; and the fpots on 

 the back and wings are larger and of a more rhombic form, and the 

 quill-feathers are dusky and fpotted with white on their inner- 

 webs only,, 



167. N. Guarauna. Head and neck brown with whitish 

 spots ; back and belly chesnut -brown : wing-coverts 

 rump and tail bright brown, with a green gloss, . 



£rasilian Whimbrel. Will. Omith. p. 292. t. 53. 



Shot a year or two since in Angleiea. Dillwyn. 



Body 21 inches long. Bill 4 inches long, arched, brown witfT a 

 yellowish bafe : feathers of the head and 72eck brown with a whitish 

 margin : fcapulars, rump, upper and under tail-coverts and tail bright 

 brown with a green gloss : wing-coverts the fame, the greater-ones 

 brown within : quills brown, the outer-ones with a green glofs : 

 legs grey-brown : claws blackish. 



168. N. pigments. Above variegated with brown, ferru° 

 ginous and white ; beneath and vent white : quills 

 and outer tail-feathers edged with white. 



Pigmy Curlew. Lewin t. 156. Walcot t. 134. 



Length 8 inches and a half: extent 15 and a half: weight near 2 or, 

 Bill black, an inch and a half long : primary quill-feathers dusky, 



edged with white : tail dusky, the outer-feathers edged with white j 



legs black. 



31. SCOLOPAX. Snipe. 



1 69 . Sc, rustiwfa Y ariegatea witil ferruginous fclac& an($ 



