Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . birds delight inrolling themselves in the dbst for the purpose of ridding themselves ofinsects. • The Famous Ibis. This is another African bird. There are about half a dozen species ofthis wading bird, including three in the United States. The red orscarlet ibis is about twenty-eight inches long, its bill six and one-halfinches, and the extent of its wings a little over three feet. This bir
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . birds delight inrolling themselves in the dbst for the purpose of ridding themselves ofinsects. • The Famous Ibis. This is another African bird. There are about half a dozen species ofthis wading bird, including three in the United States. The red orscarlet ibis is about twenty-eight inches long, its bill six and one-halfinches, and the extent of its wings a little over three feet. This bird,whose color is a uniform bright scarlet, is found in South America andthe West Indies, The white ibis, or white curlew, whose plumage ispure white, is very common in the Southern Atlantic and Gulf States,occasionally straggling as far north as New Jersey. Its flesh has a veryfishy taste and is rarely eaten except by the Indians. The glossy ibis, a smaller species, is about twenty-one inches general color is chestnut-brown, with the back and top of h^admetallic green, glossed with purple. It exists in great numbers inMexieo and has been found as far north as Massachusetts. Of this genus. BEAUTIFUL PHEASANT. 38 (593) 594 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. there are about twenty species found in the warmer parts of Africa, Asiaand South America, one of which is the Sacred Ibis of the is about as large as a domestic fowl, and is found throughout NorthernAfrica. This bird, which was reared In the temples of ancient Egypt and wasembalmed, frequents overflowed lands and dry plains and feeds on frogsand small aquatic lizards. It is a migratory bird, appearing simulta-neously with the rise of the Nile and departing as the inundationsubsides. It is a remarkable fact, that the ibis does not visit Egyptregularly any more as of old, breeding in the Soudan. As soon as it-arrives there it takes possession of its well-selected breeding places, fromwhich it undertakes excursions
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