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IBIS , one of the sacred birds of the See also:ancient Egyptians. See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Bruce identified this See also:bird with the See also:Abu-Hannes or " See also:Father See also:John " of the Abyssinians, and in 1790 it received from Latham (See also:Index ornithologicus, p. 706) the name of See also:Tantalus aethiopicus. This determination was placed beyond question by See also:Cuvier (See also:Ann. du Museum, iv. 116-135) and See also:Savigny (Hist. nat. et mythol. de l'ibis) in 18o5. They, however, removed it from the Linnaean genus Tantalus and, Lacepede having some years before founded a genus Ibis, it was transferred thither, and is now generally known as I. aethiopica, though some speak of it as I. religiosa. No See also:attempt can here be made to treat the ibis from a mythological or antiquarian point of view. Savigny's memoir contains a See also:great See also:deal of See also:matter on the subject. See also:Wilkinson (.Ancient Egyptians, See also:ser. 2, vol. H. pp. 217-224) added some of the results of later See also:research, and See also:Renouf in his Hibbert Lectures explains the origin of the myth.
The ibis is chiefly an inhabitant of the See also:Nile See also:basin from See also:Dongola southward, as well as of See also:Kordofan and See also:Sennar; whence aboutmidsummer it moves northwards to See also:Egypt.3 In See also:Lower Egypt it bears the name of Abu-mengel, or " father of the sickle," from the See also:form of its See also:bill, but it does not stay See also:long in that See also:country, disappearing when the Nile has subsided. Hence most travellers have failed to meet with it there2 (since their acquaintance with the birds of Egypt is limited to those which frequent the country in See also:winter), and writers have denied generally to this See also:species a See also:place in its See also:modern See also:fauna (cf. See also:Shelley, Birds of Egypt, p. 261). However, in 1864, von See also:Heuglin (Journ. fiir Ornithologie, 1865, p. too) saw a See also:young bird which had been shot in the See also:Delta, and E. C. See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor (Ibis, 1878, p. 372) saw an adult which had been killed near See also:Lake Menzal in 1877. The See also:story told to See also:Herodotus of its destroying See also:snakes is, according to Savigny, devoid of truth, but Cuvier states that he discovered partly digested remains of a snake in the See also:stomach of a mummied ibis.
The ibis is somewhat larger than a See also:curlew, See also:Numenius arquata, which bird it resembles, with a much stouter bill and stouter legs. The See also:head and greater See also:part of the See also:neck are See also:bare and See also:black. The plumage is See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, except the primaries, which are black, and a black plume, formed by the secondaries, tertials and lower scapulars, and richly glossed with See also:bronze, See also:blue and See also:green, which curves gracefully over the See also:hind-quarters. The bill and feet are also black. The young lack the ornamental plume, and in them the head and neck are clothed with See also:short black feathers, while the bill is yellow. The See also:nest is placed in bushes or high trees, the bird generally See also:building in companies, and in the See also:middle of See also:August von Heuglin (Orn. See also:Nord-Ost-Afrikas, p. 1138) found that it had from two to four young or much incubated eggs.' These are of a dingy white, splashed, spotted and speckled with reddish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown.
Congeneric with the typical ibis are two or three other species, the I. melanocephala of See also:India, the I. molucca or I. strictipennis, of See also:Australia, and the I. bernieri of See also:Madagascar; all of which closely resemble I. aethiopica; while many other forms not very far removed from it, though placed by authors in distinct genera,' are known. Among these are several beautiful species such as the See also:Japanese Geronticus nippon, the Lophotibis cristata of Madagascar, and the See also:scarlet ibis,' Eudocimus ruber, of See also:America. The glossy ibis, Plegadis falcinellus, found throughout the See also:West Indies, Central and the See also:south-eastern part of See also:North America, as well as in many parts of See also:Europe (whence it not unfrequently strays to the See also:British Islands), See also:Africa, See also:Asia and Australia. This bird, believed to be the second See also:kind of ibis spoken of by Herodotus, is rather smaller than the sacred ibis, and mostly of a dark See also:chestnut See also:colour with brilliant green and See also:purple reflections on the upper parts, exhibiting, however, when young none of the rufous See also:hue. This species See also:lays eggs of a deep See also:sea-green colour, having wholly the See also:character of See also:heron's eggs, and it often breeds in See also:company with herons, while the eggs of all other ibises whose eggs are known resemble those of the sacred ibis. Though ibises resemble the curlews externally, there is no See also:affinity between them. The Ibididae are more nearly related to the storks, Ciconiidae, and still more to the spoonbills, Plataleidae, with which latter many systematists consider them to form one See also:group, the Hemiglottides of See also:Nitzsch. Together these See also:groups form the sub-See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Ciconiae of the order Ciconiiformes. The true ibises are also to be clearly separated from the See also:wood-ibises, Tantalidae, of which there are four or five species, by several not unimportant structural characters. Fossil remains of a true
1 It has been said to occur occasionally in Europe (See also:Greece and See also:southern See also:Russia). -
2 E. C. Taylor remarked (Ibis, 1859, p. 51), that the See also:buff-backed heron, See also:Ardea bubulcus, was made by the tourists' dragomans to do See also:duty for the "sacred ibis," and this seems to be no novel practice, since by it, or something like it, Hasselqvist was misled, and through him See also:Linnaeus.
3 The ibis has more than once nested in the gardens of the Zoological Society in See also:London, and even reared its young there.
* For some See also:account of these may be consulted Dr Reichenow's See also:paper in Journ. See also:fur Ornithologie (1877), pp. 143-156; Elliot's in Proc. Zool. Society (1877), pp. 477-510; and that of Oustalet in Nouv. See also:Arch. du Museum, ser. 2, vols. 1. pp. 167-184.
It is a popular See also:error especially among painters—that this bird was the sacred ibis of the Egyptians.
ibis, I. See also:pagan, have been found in considerable See also:numbers in the middle See also:Tertiary beds of See also:France.' (A.
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