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Genus Plegadis Kaup. 



66. (186). Plegadis autinnnalis (Hasselq.). Gloss}- Ibis. 



The Glossy Ibis is only a straggler into Iowa from the .south. 

 Kumlien and Hollister record it from Wisconsin as a " rare strag- 

 gler, usually in late autumn [August, 1862, September, 1872, 

 Lake Koshkonong; November 3, 1879, Lake Horicon]. We 

 have positively seen this bird on the Mississippi near Prairie du 

 Chien in August some twenty years ago." (Bds. Wis., 1903, 

 32-3.) "A specimen taken near Omaha, Bruner thinks at Cut-off 

 Lake, is in the University museum" (Rev. Bds. Neb., 1904, 31), 



County records: Boone — " Accidental visitor. Only one Ibis 

 was ever taken in this county that I know of. It was identified 

 as the Glossy Ibis, but may have been Plegadis guaraicna " (Hen- 

 ning). Woodbury — Recorded from Sioux City by Dr. Guy C. 

 Rich (Iowa Orn., i, 2, 1895, 49). In a letter he .says: " I have 

 an immature specimen mounted; shot in Nebraska just across the 

 river, Oct. i, 1893. It is an immature bird, z. c\, the head and 

 neck are speckled; no white shows on forehead." 



67. (1S7). Plegadis gnara/tiia (Linn.). White-faced Glo.ssy 



Ibis. 



The White-faced Glossy Ibis is also a rare straggler in Iowa, 

 from the southwestern United States. This species was first 

 reported from Iowa by Prof. C. C. Nutting (Proc. Iowa Acad. 

 Sci., 1892, 40), a specimen in the University museum, No. 4839, 

 having been taken near Rippey (Calhoun county) in April, 1891, 

 by B. F. Osborn, reported that there was a flock of thirteen near 

 Rippey, but only one was secured. 



At Heron Lake, Minn., a short distance north of the Iowa line. 

 Rev. P. B. Peabody saw six Ibises in a rookery of Black-crowned 

 Night Herons on the .south .side of the lake, June 56, 1894, and 

 found two nests, one of four, the other of two eggs, on broken- 

 down rushes. Two birds had been shot at Heron Lake in No- 

 vember, 1893 (reported by Dr. Roberts). Rev. Peabody learned 

 from Iowa pot-hunters that two or three had been taken during 

 each of the two autumns previous (Nidologist, ii, 9, 1895, 116- 

 117). In 1895, Mr. Peabody reports: " June 22, I took at Heron 

 Lake my third and fourth sets of White-faced Glossy Ibis, with 



