. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. II. I w !'l I it iiffiinr 162 363- White. PlACB. WHITE, AND BAY IBIS. White Curlew, CauJ^,, i. ). ^,^,,, va. 4u-i>/. £«/. p^^^.^,, m. â,. Tantalus Albus, Z/«. %?. 242. I. With the face, biJ], and legs, like the former : the whole plu- mage of a fnowy whitenefs, except the ends of the four firft primaries, which are green. The flelh and fair is of faffron-color. Thefe birds arrive m South Carolina, with the fFood Ibis and the Brown Curlew, in great numbers, in September, and frequent the ic'v watery trads: continue there about fix
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. II. I w !'l I it iiffiinr 162 363- White. PlACB. WHITE, AND BAY IBIS. White Curlew, CauJ^,, i. ). ^,^,,, va. 4u-i>/. £«/. p^^^.^,, m. â,. Tantalus Albus, Z/«. %?. 242. I. With the face, biJ], and legs, like the former : the whole plu- mage of a fnowy whitenefs, except the ends of the four firft primaries, which are green. The flelh and fair is of faffron-color. Thefe birds arrive m South Carolina, with the fFood Ibis and the Brown Curlew, in great numbers, in September, and frequent the ic'v watery trads: continue there about fix weeks, and then retire fouth to breed. This fpecies goes away with egg. There was a fufpicion, that the Brown and the White differed only in lex; but experiment proved the contrary. The white kind are twenty tunes more numerous than the others 3 the flefh of the latter alf> duTers, being of a dark color. All thefe ipecic:; frequent the fides of rivers, and feed on fmall fifli, cruftaceous animals, and A. B i' ^ AV Ibis. Tantalus , Lin. Sj^/i. 2^x.^Mullfr, N» l^%.^latham, iii. â, âLev. Mus. ' â¢'' J^ With a black face : violet-colored wings and tail: blue legs. Inferted here on the authority of Mr. Muller; but this ^Je cies has hitherto been known only to fouthern Europe, and about the Cajpian and Black Seas, It has appeared of late years in the ifle of OW, in the Baltic, and begins to form a fettlement there, and to return annuallv.~Mr Oeaman, XXXVI. CUR- â. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed for Robert Faulder . ..
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