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Show 384 AVES. Others have scutellated legs; their beak, most commonly, is more slender. Jb. rubra; Scol.rubra, L.; Tantal. ruber, Gm.; Enl. 80 and 81; Wils, VIII, lxvi, 2. (The Red Ibis.) A bird found in all the hot parts of America, remarkable for its bright red colour; the tips of the wing-quills are black. The young ones, at first covered with a blackish down, become cinereous, and, when ready to fly, whitish; in two years the red makes its appearance, and continues to increase in lustre with age. This species does not migrate, and lives in flocks in marshy spots in the vicinity of estuaries. It is easily domesticated. Scol.falcinellus,L.; Courlisvert, Enl. 819; Naum. Ed.I,Supp. 28, Savig. Eg. Ois. pl. vii, f. 9. (The Green Ibis.) A purple brown-red; mantle of a deep green; the head and neck of the young marked with whitish dots. It is a beautiful bird of south· ern Europe, and of northern Africa, and most probably the spe· cies denominated by the ancients the Black lbis.(1) NuMENius, Cuv.(2) The Curlews have the beak arcuated like that of the Ibis, but it is more slender, and round throughout: the tip of the upper man· dible extends beyond the end of the lower one, and projects a little downwards in front of it. The toes are palmated at base. Scol. arcuata, L., Enl. 818; Frisch, 224; Naum. 5, f. 5. ('fhe Curlew of Europe.) Is the size of a Capon; brown; the edgesof all the feathers, whitish; rump, white; tail, striped with white and brown. Common along the coast of Europe, and in transitu in the interior. Its name is derived from its cry.(3) the coverts less slender, and partly varied with white; long and pointed feath~: on the upper part of the breast, (Ibis molucca, Cuv.) and another in Bengal, WI but slightly attenuated ash coloured coverts (1 bis bengala, Cuv. )· Add lb. papillosa, T. Col. 304;-Tant. calvus, Gm., Enl. 867;-lbis nudifr~, Spix, 86;-lb. oxycercua, ld. 87;-T. albicollis, Gm. or Curicaca of Marcgr., },nl. 976;-Tant. cayennensis, Gm., Enl. 820;-lbis plumbeua, T. Col. 235;-;ant. melanopis, Gm.; Lath., III, pl. lxxix;-lb. clwlcoptera, Vieill. Gal. 246, Ol' Tant. lwgedash, Lath. (1) Add Tantalusalbusand T. coco, Gm.; Enl. 195;-T. criatatus, Id.; EnJ.84l;lbis leucopygua, Spix, 88, if it should not prove to be the young of the ruber,Tant. leucocephalus, Lath., III, pl. lxxx, 2. [N.B. The T. fuscus of Gm. 1.5 the young of the T. albus, Id. .11m. Ed.) (2) Nwmenius, derived from neomenie, new moon, on account of its crescent shaped beak. ( 3) Add the Courlis d mecltes etroite3 of the Cape (Num. virgatus, C · ), Enl. 19~;the C. d m. et. of India. (N.lineatus);-the Num. lcngirostris, Wils. of Amwca, Am. Orn.II, xxiv, 4;-Num.ltudsoniua, Id. LXVI, f. 1. GH..ALLATORIJE.. 385 Scol. Plueopus, L.; Petit Courlis; Enl. 142; Edw. 307; Frisch, 225; N aum. 10, f. 10. ( 1) Half the size of the preceding, but has nearly the same plumage.(2) ScoLOPA:x, Cuv.(3) The Snipes have a straight beak, the nasal furrows extending to near its point which is a little inflated externally to reach beyond the lower mandible, anti on the middle of which there is a simple groove; this point is soft and very sensible, and when dried, after death, assumes a punctured appearance. Their feet are not palmated. A pecullar character of these birds consists in their compressed head and large eyes placed very far back, which gives them a singularly stupid air, an indication which is confirmed by the.ir habits. Scol. rusticola, L.; La Becasse; Enl. 885; Frisch, 126, 227; Naum. Ed. I, I, f. 1. (The Woodcock.) The well known plumage of this bird is variegated above with grey, red and black spots and bands; grey beneath, with transverse blackish lines. Its distinguishing character consists of four bt·oad, transverse, black bands, which succeed each other on the back part of the head. During the summer it inhabits lofty mountains, and descends into the woods in the month of October. It lives either singly or in pairs, particularly in bad weather, and feeds on worms nnd insects. Few of them remain on the plains during summer.( 4) Scot. gallinago, L.; La Becassine, Enl. 88!3; Frisch, 229; Naum. 3, f. 3. (The Snipe.) Smaller than the preceding, and with a longer beak; is distinguished by two broad, longitudinal black bands on the head, by the neck spotted with brown and fawn colour, by a blackish mantle with two longitudinal fawn {1) Phreopua (ash-coloured foot), a name composed by Gesner. (2) Add the Num. tenuiroatria, Ch. Bonap.;-the Num. rufus, Vieill. Gal. 245; -tile Courlia de:mi-bec (Num. brevirostris, T. ), Col. 381. N.B. In this genus, and almost in the whole of this family, the beak becomes lengthened by age. {3) Scolopax, the Greek name of the Woodcock, from ux.oM+, stake, on account of its straight and pointed beak. Vieillot has changed it into RusTICOL.&. (4) Add a. closely allied species of North America (Scot. minw, Gm. ), Arct. ZooJ . 1~ pl. xix; Vieill. Gal. 242; Wils., VI, xlviii, 2;-Scol. sabini, Vig., Lin. Trans. XIV, pl. xxi, if a true speci~s. (5) Add the Becassine muette of Eur., Scol. Breltmii, Kaup., Isis., 1823;-Sco/. ,_a, Gm. :Enl. 895, which is the Sc. gallinago, Wils. VI, xlvii, 1 ;-Scot. gigan. Ita, Tem. Col. 403. 1_'he Brunette of Buffon, Scol. pu6illa, Dun/in of the English, is only the 'l'ringa. 4/pma,Gm. Vot. 1.-cz y |