94 ALTRICIAL GRALLATORES — HERODIONES. 



B. Legs and feet comparatively sliort and stout, the tarsus with the frontal scutellas more or less 

 irregular and interrupted. Adult, with the head and upper portion of neck dark chest- 

 nut, the Liwi-r neck and Idwcr jiarts violet-hlackish, the lesser wing-coverts metallic 

 green and bron/A'd puiplr, the back dark metallic green. Young, with the head and 

 upper jiait id' neck sln-akt-d with dusky and white, the lower parts dusky, with a violet 

 tinge. 

 3. P. Ridgwayi.i Feathers round liase of bill dusky chestnut, or dark rusty ; lores red- 

 dish in life. Wing. 1().1.')-12.0() ; culmen, 3.40-5.10; tarsus, 2.70-3.85; middle toe, 

 1.80-2.30. Hab. Vicinity of Lake Titieaca, Peru ; Chili. 



Plegadis falcinellus. 



THE GLOSSY IBIS. 



Tantaltis falcinellus, Lixx. S. X. I. 1766, 241, no. 2 (based on Numenius rostra arcuato, corpore 



castanco, 2>cdibus obscure vircnfibus, Kka.m. Austr. Z50. — NumcJiuis viridis, Biiiss. Av. 5, p. 



326, t. 27, f. 2. — FalchicUus, Gesx. Av. p. 220, etc.). 

 J bis falcinellus, Vieill. Xouv. Diet. XIV. 1817, 23. — RoxAP. Obs. Wils. 1825, no. 199. — Xutt. 



Man. IL 18.34, 88. — Aun. Oni. Biog. IV. 1838, 608, pi. 387 ; Synop. 1839, 257 ; B. Am. VL 



1843, 50, pi. 358 (adult). 

 Plegadis falcinellus, "Kaup," Fr.iTSCn, Vog. Eur. 1869, Taf. 43, fig. 3, p. 378. — RiDGW. Nom. N. 



Am. B. 1881, no. 503. — CouES, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 649, 

 Tantalus castancus, Mui.lei!, S. N. Su]ipl. 1776, 112 (adult). 

 Courly, d'ltalie. Buff. PL Enl. 1770-84, pi. 819 (adult). 

 Baij Ibis, Pexx. Arct. Zool. II. 1785, 460 (adult). 

 Gree7i Ibis, Lath. Synop. III. i. 1785, 113, sp. 13 (young). 

 Glossy Ibis, Lath. t. c. 114, sp. 14 (transition pi.). 

 Tantalus viridis, Gmel. S. N. I. 1788, 648, no. 8 (young). 

 Tantalus igneus, Gmel. t. c. 649, no. 9 (adult). 



Falcinellus igneus, Gray, Gen. B. ed. 2, 1841, 87. — Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 503. 

 "Ibis noir, Savig. Hist. Myth, de I'lhis, p. 36, fig. 4, juv." (Elliot). 

 "Ibis sacra, Te.mm. Man. Oru. 1815, 385" (Elliot). 



" Tringa autumnnlis, Hasselq. It. Pal. deutsche Ausg. p. 306" (Elliot). 

 " Tantalus mcxicanus," OiiD. Jour. Philad. Acad. I. 1817, 52 (not of Gmel.). 

 Ibis Ordii, Boxap. Consp. List, 1838, 49. — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 635 (part). — Baikd, 



Cat. X'. Am. B. 1859, no. 500. 

 Ibis falcinellus, var. Ordii, Coi'ES, Key, 1872, 263 ; Check List, 1873, no. 445 ; Birds N. W. 1874:, 517. 

 "Ibis guarauna," Cabot, Pr. Boston Soc. II. 1850, 313, 332 (not of Lixx.). 

 " A'umcnius longirostris," GossE, B. Jam. 1847, p. 348 (not of Wilson). 

 Tantalus bcngalensis, "Light." Bonap. Consp. II. 1855, 158. 

 Ibis peregrina, " Mijll." Bonap. t. c. 159. 



IIab. Palaearctic region, West Indies, and Eastern United States. Of irregular distribution, 

 and only locally abundant in America. 



Sp. Char. Adult: Feathers bordering the base of the bill, all round, blaclcish. Pileum, cheeks, 

 and chin glossy greenish black, with violet-purple reflections. Hind part of the head, whole neck, 

 anterior part of the back, and avdciior half of lesser wing-covert region, rich I'eddish chestnut, the 

 back darkest. Lower parts, except the crissum, axillars, and lining of the wing, uniform blight 

 reddish chestnut, lighter, brighter, and less purplish than the neck. Remaining ujiper parts, as 

 well as the lining of the wing, axillars, and crissum, glossy, metallic, dark purple, green, and 

 bronze ; the posterior part of the back, posterior scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials, rumji, upper tail- 

 coverts, and tail nearly uniform dull violet-purple, changing to bottle-green in certain lights ; alulse, 



1 Plegadis Ridgwayi. 



Falcinellus Pddgivayi, Allex, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. III. July, 1876, 355 (Moho, Coninia, and 



Vilquechico, near Lake Titieaca, Peru). — Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 506. 

 " Ibis falcinellus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, 156" (Elliot). 

 ? "Ibis Ordii," Tscnrni, Fauna Per. 1844, 298. 

 1 1bis brcvirostris, Peale, Zoiil. Expl. Exp. 1848, 219 (Rimac R., Peru). 



