. Cassell's natural history . ey are sometimes dojncsticatcd, and accoinpany the * Ibis lulira.—Vioill. lUK s(^ARI,KT lllls=. 49-5 poultry. Tlio ibis is ovncrnlly osloonioil as oood food; audits licli and i^jaudy plumageis used by the Urazilians for various oniamciils. THE GLOSSY IBIS.* There is good reasou to believe, says Mr. Yarrell, that the Green, the Glossy, andthe ]5ay This of authors, with the various systenlatic names in use among ornithologists,refer only to various states of the same breed, depending on ago or season, the differencein appearance inducing the names. The appearance of
. Cassell's natural history . ey are sometimes dojncsticatcd, and accoinpany the * Ibis lulira.—Vioill. lUK s(^ARI,KT lllls=. 49-5 poultry. Tlio ibis is ovncrnlly osloonioil as oood food; audits licli and i^jaudy plumageis used by the Urazilians for various oniamciils. THE GLOSSY IBIS.* There is good reasou to believe, says Mr. Yarrell, that the Green, the Glossy, andthe ]5ay This of authors, with the various systenlatic names in use among ornithologists,refer only to various states of the same breed, depending on ago or season, the differencein appearance inducing the names. The appearance of the Glossy Ibis iu this country, though not uncommon, is stillaccidental; the course of its migration for the summer towards the north of Europebeing considerably to the eastward in a line from Egypt to Turkey, Hungary, andPoland, to the southern parts of Russia. It is also occasionally seen, on its passage fromnorthern Africa, in the Grecian Archipelago, in Sicily, Sardinia, and at Genoa. * rniilaliis FalfiiKllus.— ^4 \x-. THE nOAl-RIIX/ The Boat-bill is about the size of a domestic hen. Its beak resembles a boat reversed,havino- a strou<^ ridge or keel down the middle of the upper mandible, and the sidesspread out and bowed. In the male, the upper part of the- neck and breast are dirty white; the back andlower part of the belly rusty-reddish. The legs and feet are brown. Frnni llie headdepends a long crest of feathers, falling backwards. The female has the top of Ihe head black, without the elongated crest; Ihe back andthe belly rusty-reddish ; the wings gray ; the forehead and rest of the plumage while the bill, legs, and feet, brown. liutham savs: This species inhabits Cayenne, Guiana, and IJrazil, and chieflyfrequents such parts as are near the water. In such places it perches on llie trees whiclihang over the streams, and, like the kingfisher, drops down on tlic ilsh that swim bcneatli. The food and general liabifs of this bird place it among tlie lu-rons, ;
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