f?CARLET Ibis, in the back ground. 



BAY, OR GLOSSY IBIS. 



(Ibis falcineUus, Vieill. Temm. Bonap. Am. Orn. iv. p. 23. pi. 23. 

 fig. 1. [adult.] Tantalus falcineUus, Gmel. T. igneus. Ide3I. 

 Latham. Le Courlis vert. Buffon, and Courtis d'ltalie. Id. PI. 

 Enlum. 819. [the old male.] Vlhis noir, Savigny, Hist, natur. et 

 Mytholog. de I'lbis. p. 36. pi. 4. Le Courlis brillant, Sonnini, edit 

 de BufF. Ois. xxii. p. 238. [an old female.] The young, Tantalus 

 Tnr idis, Gmei.. Lath. Ind. ii. p. 707. Phil. Museum, No. .) 



Sp. Charact. — Purplish-chestnut; crown, middle of the back, 

 wings and tail, metallic green; face blackish — Young, head and 

 neck, striped with blackish, and margined with whitish ; back and 

 scapulars brownish ash : beneath blackish-cinereous : the wings 

 and tail duller. 



The Glossy Ibis, or Liver, appears to be, within the 

 temperate and warmer regions, almost a general inhabitant 



