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CRYING IBIS. 
sive, inasmuch as it proceeds part of the way down 
the neck ; the crown is red, and the rest white : the 
skin of the throat is naked and flaccid : the irides are 
brown : the general colour of the plumage is black, 
tinged with greenish, especially on the wing-coverts, 
the tips of which are glossed with copper : the beak 
is nearly six inches long, and, with the feet, is red : 
the female scarcely differs, except in having the crown 
of the head flatter. Inhabits the Cape of Good 
Hope and neighbourhood, near marshy places ; and 
is easily tamed. 
CRYING IBiS. 
(Ibis vocifera.) 
Ib. plumbea alho metadata, cat/da ciuteaia, reclricibus extitfis albis. 
Lead-coloured Ibis, spotted with white, \vitl! the tail wedye- 
shaped, and its feathers outwardly white. 
Nunienius vociferus. Lath. Ind. Oni. Stip. Ixv. 
Tantalus Pictus, Ephouskyca, or Crying Bird. Bartrum's Tra- 
vels, p. 145. 
Crying Curlew. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup ii. 30C. 
Tantalus Ephouskyca. Barton, Linn. Trans, xii. 24. f. 1. 
A FINE species, originally described by Mr. Bar- 
tram, in his travels through North and South Caro- 
lina, &c. " There is," he says, *' inhabiting the low 
shores and swamps of this river (the St. Juan, in East 
Florida), and the lakes of Florida, as well as Georgia, 
a very curious bird, called by an Indian name, Ephous- 
wyca, which signifies, in our language, the Crying 
Bird. I cannot determine what genus of European 
