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SHORE BIRDS. 



1. GLOSSY IBIS, P. AUTUMNALis. 23.00; bill, 5.00; 

 head, neck, lesser wing coverts, and beneath, dark chest- 

 nut; above, metallic green. Fig. 115. 

 bronze, and purple ; space in front 

 of eye, greenish. Bill and feet, 

 brown, fig. 115. Young, grayish- 

 brown with head and neck streak- 

 ed with white. Downy young, 

 blackish throughout ; broad white 

 band crossing crown. Warmer 

 parts of eastern hemisphere ; not 

 uncommon in extreme southern 

 portion of eastern U. S. ; wander- 

 ing casually as far north as N. E. 

 and 111. ; accidental in the greater^ 

 Antilles. 



2. WHITE-FACED GLOSSY 

 IBIS, P. GUARAUNA. Differs from 

 1 in having the feathers at base 



of bill white, and the space in front of eye, lake-red. Downy 

 young, without white on crown. Western U. S. south to the 

 Argentine Republic; occasionally breeding in Fla. 

 I. HEP^OIXS. Herodiones. 

 Wading birds with lo.g legs and necks, long, pointed 

 bills; space in front of eye, naked; wings, broad ; tail, short; 

 toes, long with the nail of the middle one comb-like ; fig. 116 ; 

 portion of plumage of breast and sometimes of the sides of 

 rump, shortened and greatly modified, forming the powdered 

 down patches; these feathers break up into oily particles 

 and have a strong odor and falling upon the water may serve 

 Fig. 116. to attract fishes. Flight, strong with 



comparatively slow wing-beats, the 

 neck is doubled backward, the bill 

 held straight forward and the legs 

 extended behind, fig. 117, small fig- 

 ure. Food, mainly fishes (sometimes 

 I, A, a, 1. crabs and other crustaceans and 



H, B, b, 1. 1-16. 



