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WHITE IBIS. 
(Ibis alba.) 
Ib. corpore albo, alarum apicibus viridibus, facie rostro ped'ihusque 
rubris. 
Ibis with a white body, the tips of the wings green, the face, 
beak and legs red. 
Tantalus albus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 242. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 
651. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 705. 
Numenius Brasiliensis candidus. Briss. Orn. 5. 309. 
Le Courly blanc de Bresil. Bvff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 41. BuJ^\ 
Pl.Enl.9\5. 
White Ibis. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 363. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 1 1 1. 
fF'ils. Amer. Orn. v. \m.p. 43. pi. Ixv. 
Coco Ibis. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. 241. Variety.-* 
In length near two feet ; of which the beak is six 
inches and a half, with the legs and the naked space 
round the eyes and at the base of the beak of a pale 
red : the irides are grey : the rest of the body (ex- 
cept that the ends of the four outer quills are greenish 
black) is pure white : both sexes resemble each other: 
they are abundant during the latter end of summer, 
in the low marshy lands of Carolina, but disappear 
and return again in the autumn : like the rest of the 
genus, they feed on small fish and aquatic insects; 
and are frequently observed standing on the dead 
limbs of trees, and on the shore, resting on one leg, 
their body in an almost perpendicular position, the 
head and beak resting on the breast. They are 
common in Florida, flying about in large flocks. 
The Coco Ibis of Latham is probably a variety of 
