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CAYENNE IBIS* 
4~ (Ibis Cayenensis.) 
Ib. viridi-nigncans, reinigihus rectricibusque saturatiorilms, pe- 
dihus Jlnvescentibus, rostro nigricante. 
Green-black Ibis, with the quills and tail-feathers darker, the 
legs yellowish, the beak dusky. 
Tantalus Cayenensis. Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1. 652. Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 704. 
Le courlis de bois. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 42. 
Le courlis vert de Cayenne. B7iff. PL Enl. 820. 
Cayenne Ibis. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. 107. 
Length twenty-two inches : the beak five inches 
and a half, long and dusky: the base and naked space 
round the eye of a dusky pale red : the prevailing 
colour of the plumage is black, glossed with greenish 
in some lights ; especially on the quills and tail : the 
legs are dirty yellow. Some specimens (probably the 
young) have the middle of each feather dashed with 
black, without any green tinge ; and the legs are 
nearly black. In this state it greatly resembles the 
Scarlet Ibis, but its legs are only two-thirds of the 
length of those of that bird. Found at Cayenne, 
generally at a distance from the sea, and in pairs, 
perching on the decayed trees which float down the 
streams of the rivers : it is known by the colonists by 
the name of Flammant des Bois. 
