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SATRED IBIS. 
Transactions, observes, that he cannot find that the 
Crying Bird is noticed by any of the European Or- 
nithologists, and that it has also escaped the notice 
of Wilson, the author of the American Ornithology. 
It is, however, described by Latham, in the second 
Supplement to his General Synopsis of Birds, under 
the name of the Crying Curlew, and from Bartram's 
Travels before quoted. 
SACRED IBIS. 
(Ibis religiosa.) 
Ib. alba, capite coUoque superiore fusch, dorso postico rcmigibus- 
que nigris. 
White Ibis, with the head and upper i)art of tlio neck brown, the 
back behind and quills black. 
Ibis religiosa. Cuv. Reg. Anim. ] . 483. 
Tantalus ^thiopicus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 706. 
Abou Hannes. Bruce' s Travels, App.j)l- S.^. 
L'Ibis sacre. Cuv. Reclierches sur les Ossemens fossiles, torn. 1. 
Size of a hen : general colour of the plumage 
white : the beak and legs black : the naked part of 
the head and neck the same ; and in the young bird 
this part is clothed with small black feathers : the tip 
of the wing-feathers, and the slender feathers at the 
lower part of the back, are also black. In some, pro- 
bably young birds, the head and hinder part of the 
neck is brown : the lower part of the back, the quills and 
tail, are black : the beak above green, beneath black. 
This is the bird so celebrated by the ancient 
Egyptians, who used to rear them in their temples, 
