Black-faced ibis, Theristicus melanopis. Native to South America. Tantalus melanopsis. From a specimen in the British Museum. Handcoloured copperplate engravin from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1830.

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