OOUR MBIT RODAS 3g 
fickly, and loft all the glofs of its plumage, and 
before it died it faded to a dull rofe colour. 
White Ibis’s are found in great.numbers in the 
low maifhy lands in Carolina; they ftay about fix 
weeks, Their flefh and their fat are faid to be of 
a yellow colour. 
_ The Cayenne Ibis’s always go in pairs; they 
perch on the decayed trees which float down the 
rivers, in order to catch fith. 
A white-headed Ibis; found in the Iffand of 
Ceylon, in the Eaft-Indies, was kept tame at Co- 
lumbo, which is in Ceylon. ‘The feathers at the, 
bottom of his back were of a beautiful pink co- 
lour, they were very long, and covered-the tail; 
during the rainy feafon thefe pink feathers loft 
_ their beautiful colour, 
Genus. 

