124 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



brilliant on under surface of wings and tail. Young: Head and neck streaked 

 with white and dusk}-, and lower parts uniform grayish brown or duskj-, the upper 

 parts much as in the adult. Eggs plain greenish verditer blue. 



a}. Legs and feet long and slender, the tarsus with a nearly continuous frontal series 

 of transverse seutellse. Adult with neck, back, lesser wing-coverts, and 

 lower parts rich chestnut. Young with lower parts dull gra3-ish brown. 

 6'. Adult: Lores greenish in life, blackish in dried skins; feathers surround- 

 ing base of bill blackish. Doiony young : Blackish, " with a broad white 

 band over the crown ; legs and bill yellowish, the latter black at the 

 base and tip, and with a central black band." (Dresser.) Length 

 about 22.00-25.00, wing 10.20-11.85, culmen 4..30-5.45, tarsus 2.90-4.30, 

 middle toe 2.10-2.80. Eggs 2.01 X 1-47. Hab. Warmer parts of the 

 eastern hemisphere; also, more southern portion of eastern LTnited 

 States, and West Indies.. 186. P. autumnalis (II.vsselq.). Glossy Ibis. 

 6'. Adult: Lores lake-red in life, pale brownish or yellowish in dried skins; 

 feathers surrounding base of bill white. Young not obviously different 

 from corresponding stage of P. autumnalis. Doicny young xchcn newly 

 hatched: Clothed with uniform blackish down, the bill whitish, with 

 dusk)- base. Older : Similar, but base and tip of bill, and band across 

 middle portion, blackish ; the intervening spaces pinkish white. Length 

 about 19.00-26.00, wing 9.30-10.80, culmen 3.75-6.00, tarsus 3.00-4.40, 

 middle toe 2.10-2.85. Eggs 2.05 X 1-41. Jl'ib. Tropical America in 

 general (except West Indies?), south to Argentine Republic and Chili, 

 and western North America, from Texas and Lmvcr California to 



Oregon 187. P. guarauna (Linn.). White-faced Glossy Ibis. 



a'. Legs and feet comparatively short and stout, the tarsus with frontal scutellae 

 more or less irregular and interrupted. Adtdt with head and upper neck 

 dark chestnut- brown, the lower neck and lower parts violet-blackish ; lesser 

 wing-coverts metallic green and bronzed purple, the back dark metallic 

 green. Young with lower parts duskj', glossed with violet. Wing 10.15- 

 12.00, culmen 3.40-5.10, tarsus 2.70-3.85, middle toe 1.80-2.30. Hab. Vicinity 

 of Lake Titieaca, Peru ; Chili. 



P. ridgwayi (Allen). Peruvian Glossy Ibis.' 



Family CICONIIDyE.— The Stouk.s and Wood Ibises. (Page 122.) 



Genera. 

 a'. Bill decurved toward end, with the tip blunt and rounded ; toes lengthened, the 

 middle one at least half as long as the tarsus. (Subfamily Tantalinw.) 

 i'. Adult with whole head and part of neck naked, the skin hard and scurfy, 

 except on top of head, which is covered with a smooth, nearly quadrate, 



• Falcindhn ridgicayi Allen, Hull. Mu8. Comp. Zool. iii. July, 1876, 365. PUgadit ridgmayi RiDGW., in 

 B. B. A K. Water b! N. Am. i. 18S4, 94. 



