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Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE GLOSSY IBIS. Pl^gadis falcin^llus (Linnaeus). The Glossy Ibis is now only of accidental occurrence in the British Islands, but towards the end of the last century its visits appear to have been more frequent, and near Lynn in Norfolk it was known to gunners and fi.shermen as the 'Black Curlew.' In the eastern and midland counties and on the estuaries of the south coast it has been observed more often than in the west, though it has occurred in Pembrokeshire and Lancashire ; it is even popularly —and erroneously—supposed to be the bird called the Liver, figured in the arms of Liverpool. Northward it is decidedly rare, and only six examples seem to have been obtained in Scotland : one of them near Kirkwall, Orkney, and one at Unst in the Shetlands. In Ireland it has occurred at least twenty times, either singly or in small flocks, chiefly in the southern and eastern counties, and once near Belfast. As a rule the visits of this species have been in autumn or early winter, but occasionally in spring. To the Faeroes, Iceland, Scandinavia, Denmark, and the Baltic Provinces the Glossy Ibis is a mere wanderer; and north of the Alpine ranges of Central Europe its appearance can only be con-

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