The late M. Macé sent from Bengal to the Museum several individuals of a species very nearly allied to this, which has the beak a little longer, and less arched, of which the first quill only has a little black on the two edges of its point, and of which the secondary quills are also somewhat attenuated, and slightly tinged with reddish. It appears, according to M. Savigny, p. 25, that M. Levaillant observed another still, which has the secondary quills similarly elongated, but of which the neck always retains its feathers, and whose face is of a red colour. The same M. Macé also sent us a tantalus, very much resembling that which has been regarded by naturalists as the ibis, but of which the small wing-coverts, and a broad band at the lower part of the breast, are black, and speckled with white. The last secondary quills are elongated, and tinged with rose-colour. It is known that, in the Tantalus ibis of naturalists, the small wing-coverts are speckled with purplish red, and that the whole under part of the body is white. We give here a table of the parts of some of these birds, which could be accurately measured in stuffed individuals. By comparing them with those of the skeletons of embalmed ibises, one may judge if it were possible to believe for a single moment that these mummies belonged to the tantalus. +-----------------------+-------+-------+-------+---------------------+ | |Length of the beak, from its commissure to | | |the tip, | | | |Length of the naked part of the leg, | | PARTS OF THE BODY. | | |Length of the tarsus, | | | | | |Length of the middle | | | | | |toe, | +-----------------------+-------+-------+-------+---------------------+ |Tantalus Ibis of | | | | | | Naturalists. | 0.210 | 0.130 | 0.190 | 0.105 | |Macé’s Indian | | | | | | Tantalus. | 0.265 | 0.150 | 0.250 | 0.115 | |Numenius Ibis the true | | | | | | Ibis of the Ancients.| 0.125 | 0.041 | 0.085 | 0.080 | |Numenius Ibis, measured| | | | | | by M. Savigny. | 0.154 | 0.056 | 0.097 | 0.092 | |Macé’s Numenius. | 0.148 | 0.055 | 0.095 | 0.083 | |Labillardiere’s | | | | | | Numenius. | 0.165 | 0.040 | 0.084 | 0.086 | |Peron’s Numenius. | 0.131 | 0.034 | 0.080 | 0.078 | |Leschenault’s Numenius.| 0.132 | 0.044 | 0.093 | 0.086 | +-----------------------+-------+-------+-------+---------------------+