united by a membrane; $8 far as the first join®“; hind tQfè^ong.‘ah^6^tdfg'1its
length on-thegropnd*- "Wings moderate, „the^bAt quill feather ^bferteg^than the
^second and third, which are the longestTih the^wjug.
T here is- good reason to> lMiès%-'that, »the ^^n-,»«the
Glossy, and the Bajvl^is Aof authors, with tho^yaricyis ^yster
matic. names in m&e-among &^tholo^stsj^efer onlyrjto. various
s ta lh o f the same birdy depending pn age.m'seasl|k, the difference
in appearance ind,ip||jg the names. jiGaloncl Montagu,.;
who paid 'great attention f.to the changes in .the coloursZoff
plumage dependant outage, sex,, and s e^ o n ,^ g e (ars, to Jiavp.-
first pointed, .out the; ^dhntity of thesè>. ‘ Supposed.
Ibis, andfgiyes-^the .details at considerableTeiat'Bi^in the- supplement
to his Ornithological.Dictionary.
The appearance of the Glossy Ilys .in^tBjs Country, tMügli
rmrt uncommon, '^sjJ&Q accidental -migration
for the summer towards" thé north-of Europëtlkm'n, .considerably
to the„ eastward in a linèj||mn.Egypt to Turkey, Hun-
gary and Poland^to -the Vèuthern;partsfpf RhÉJ^ 11 )
occasionanyjneeh^on, its passage ggi^norlhcrn Africa iif^ p .J
Grecian-Archipelago,1 inlij|döy,
straggler is sometimes found in Switzerland, P ro v e n c p aB K ^
and Holland, but b ird .
Three specimens have béenOoÈed in Ile^nd',~as. recorded
.by N. A-. Vigors,^scp*.in.tjejfirst vpliim|fof; tli<- jiolqgioal^
Journal. One occurred some{-lears $ g |r in Lancashire^, and
is,preserved in the^collection of. the Earl" cgÜDerby i n S a t ; '
county. According t.o Montagu“^ the Ibis isja|f|pfetf fa a
part o f the arms o f f he town of Liverpool, -This bird is
termed- a Liveg, from which that flourishing !ttown derived
its name, and is now standi'ng_on the spot where 3 p ! fW
was, on the-verge, of which the Liver'-vr&s killed.” *
* The arms of the town of Liverpool are comparatively modern, and seem to
have no reference to-the Ibis. The bird has beemadopted in the arms of the
Earl of Liverpool, and in a recent edition, of Burke’s Peerage is described as a
Cormorant holding in thé beak a branch of sea-weed. In the Plantagenet seal
The Rev. Hugh Davies, the friend of Pennant, has noticed
that a flock visited Anglesey, of which four or five were
.shot. Mr. Couch, in his-Cornish Fauna, says that several-
-specimens of the Ibis have occurred in Cornwall. Besides
three .formerly, killed in Devonshire as recorded by Montagu,
i|kree others are m en tio n ^ by Dr. Edward Moore, and one
•by! Mr. Bellamy; 'this,; last-was obtained in October 1885 at
t£$rideston in Sp^ith Devon. I heard of one that was killed
in Poole .Hafllojlri’in ,Oc|,ober 1889 from the Earl of Malmesbury,
and also from J ." 0 . Austin, Esq. of Ensbury near
Wimho,urn.Mpnt^gu mentions one that was killed in
^grkshire ; another was killed-at 'Vfhitmore pond, nearGuild-
f e ;djj.in March 1888^and J.,C. Hurst, Esq. of Dartford, sent
rngnotice, in 1887 of a specimen, in his own collection that
had been shot ..on the bank of a fish-pond in that neighbour-
Many specimens ,-have been obtained in Norfolk,
IplJae' ■ Richard Lubbock remarks that the Ibis Was probably
fiftyty |a || ■’back more common in the neighbourhood
o f a r m e u t h . &c.: 'the old gunners used to talk of
haying, /in their youth,’/often seen small parties of what they
called “ Black Cxtriews.’’ Mr., Selby mentions one example,
a-young bird, now preserved- in his own collection, that was
obtained on the Coquht near Rothbury, in the autumn of
1820: from this specimen the representation of the Ibis
published in some a|fnthe later editions of Bewick’s British
ffitfds was taken. Still further north, Muller includes the
Ibis a§ a bird of Denmark. M. Nilsson says i f sometimes
visits ^Sweden, but very rarely, and it has appeared on some
of- the ,inlands of the Baltic. Wagler, in his Systerna Avium,,
page 182, enumerates Iceland among the northern localities
pf Liverpool, Which iS believed to be of the time of King John, the bird has the
appearance of a Dcfve'WitH a sprig of olive. For a drawing of this ancient
Seal, with various .other particulars, and also for a notice of the Tecent occurrence
of an Ibis near the town of Fleetwood, on the river Wyre, I am indebted
to the kindness of John Skaife, Esq. of Blackburn.