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IBIS, 
GLOSSY IBIS. BAY IBIS. GREEN IBIS. 
Tantalus falcinellus^ 
Numenius viridis, 
Ibis falcinellus, 
“ ignea , 
Fleming. Selby. 
Stephens. 
Pennant. Montagu. 
Brisson. 
Ibis —The Greek name of a bird. 
Falcinellus. Falx—A. hook, from 
the shape of the bill. 
This Ibis, though of a different species from that which, 
worshipped by the Egyptians of old, obtained thence the 
name of Sacred, appears to have been also regarded by them 
with some degree of veneration, as its remains are found 
with those of the other bird, preserved still, after the lapse 
of so many thousands of years, in the mummies of the 
catacombs. 
In Europe, it occurs on its travels in the islands of the 
Archipelago of Greece, and in Sicily, Sardinia, Italy, Switzerland, 
France, Holland, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and the southern 
parts of Russia. It is also included among the birds of 
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, and has been seen according 
to Wagler, in Iceland. It belongs likewise to northern Africa 
—in Egypt, and again southwards, even to the Cape of G-ood 
Hope. In Asia, too, in India, in the Dukkun; in Persia, 
Syria, Thibet, and the districts between the Black Sea and 
the Caspian Sea, and in the islands of Sunda and Java, and 
others. Lastly, in America examples have, it is said, occurred; 
several in the United States, and in Canada, and in Mexico 
it exists in vast numbers, according to Audubon; as also in 
Florida, and the Brazils; but the Prince of Canino considers 
the species as a different one, and thinks that this continent 
has been wrongly given to the bird at present under con¬ 
sideration. 
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