NOTE ON THE BREEDING of the GLOSSY IBIS, FALCIN- 

 ELLUS lONEUS (IBIS FALCINELLUS, Linn.). 



By K. H. Bennett, F.L.S. 



As I have never heard of an instance of this bird breeding here 

 before, nor seen a description of its nest or eggs, perhaps a short 

 account may be of interest to my ornithological fellow members. 



I will premise my remarks by stating that the present year in 

 this part of the country (Lower Lachlan) has been an unprecedently 

 wet one, surpassing in this respect the far-famed 1870. In con- 

 sequence of this unusual rainfall large bodies of water have collected, 

 exceeding anything previously seen by white men ; and this doubt- 

 less has been the cause of the present bird, as well as several other 

 aquatic species, breeding here this year that I had not known to 

 do so previously ; whilst birds that I had never seen here before, 

 — though they did not breed — were amongst the visitants. 



Some years ago I described in the Proceedings of the Society 

 the breeding place of Platalea fiavipes^ Gould, and Ardea pacifica, 

 Lath., which is situated in a large depression on the plain, and, for 

 the greater part of its extent thickly overgrown with " Box " 

 (Eucalyptus) trees, a few miles from Yandembah Station. In 

 consequence of the great rainfall of the past few months, this 

 hollow is now full of water reaching up to the lower branches of 

 many of the trees, in fact quite a lake. 



Wishing to obtain some spoonbill and herons' eggs I visited this 

 place on the 22nd of October, and swam into the part of the hollow 

 where the heronry is situated. Whilst swimming about I noticed 

 a glossy ibis fly off a nest on the branch of a tree some eight or 

 ten feet above the water, but having no idea that this bird bred 

 here, I did not take much notice of the circumstance thinking that 



