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IBIS. 
One was obtained in Devonshire, in 1839; in Norfolk, a 
pair were shot at the month of the Norwich river, September 
13th., 1824; there were four more in company with them: 
others have been met with in that county. Arthur Havers, 
Esq., of Tenterden, Kent, informs me of one killed near 
Reading-street, on the borders of Romney Marsh, in that 
county, in December, 1852; another was shot near Dartford, 
in 1837. In Surrey, one was procured on Whitemore Pond, 
near Guildford, in May, 1833; and Meyer saw a flock of birds 
which he believed to be of this species, pass over Fairmile 
Common, about the year 1837, in September. 
In the 4 Western Times,’ of October 11th., 1851, it was 
recorded that a specimen of this exceedingly rare and interesting 
British visitor was shot at Holsworthy, in North Devon, a 
few days before the above date; it was on the 7th. of 
September; one also at Bridestowe, in October, 1835, and 
three others also elsewhere; in that county, two were formerly 
procured, as recorded by Montagu, and another in 1805. In 
Northumberland, one, shot on the bank of the Coquet, near 
Rothbury, in the autumn of 1820. In Lancashire, one; in 
Cornwall, several; in Dorsetshire, one, near Poole, in October, 
1839. N. Rowe, Esq., of Worcester College, has also obligingly 
directed my attention to this instance of the occurrence of 
this very rare bird. One, of which Mr. M. C. Cooke has 
informed me, was shot in a pond at Swanscombe, in Kent; 
another, a male bird, nearly in adult plumage, of the occur¬ 
rence of which Mr. John Shaw is my informant, was shot at 
Albrighton, Salop, October 3rd., 1853; another was in company 
with it at the time. Mr. William Franklin has also written 
to me of this specimen. Four or five were shot out of a 
flock in the Isle of Anglesea. In Berkshire, one. 
In Ireland, one was met with on Lough Dun, in the county 
of Longford, about the 20th. of November, 1852. 
The Ibis has its vernal and autumnal migrations, north 
and south, the former in March and April, and the latter 
in August and September. 
They generally live in societies, and frequent the shores of 
lakes and ponds, the banks of rivers, and any moist places. 
They are wild birds, and not easily approached, both from 
this cause and the nature of the localities they inhabit. 
‘The flight of the Ibis is very peculiar, especially during 
its migration, when such numbers of them may be seen on 
the wing that they are rarely to be counted; and each flock 
