IBISIN 2. 391 
THE BLACK OR WARTY-HEADED IBis. 
Length, 25 to 30; expanse, 48 ; wing, 14 to 15; tail, 7; tarsus, 
3 ; bill, 6. 
Bill greenish-leaden ; irides dull orange-red; legs and feet 
brick-red. 
Head nude, black, with a triangular patch of bright red 
papille or warts on the back of the head, the point of the 
triangle just above the eyes; neck and body above  fuscous 
brown, nearly black on the upper tail-coverts ; wings glossy steel- 
blue, mixed with purple, and a large white patch on the inner- 
most lesser coverts ; quills dusky black ; lower parts dark black- 
ish-brown ; under tail-coverts glossed with blue. 
The Black Ibis is fairly common throughout the region ; it is 
a permanent resident, breeding during the monsoon. The nests 
are more often solitary than otherwise. The eggs, three or four 
in number, are moderately long ovals, more or less pointed at 
one end, and are of a beautiful sea-green, but are somewhat 
coarse in texture. They are occasionally spotted. 
They measure 2°43 inches in length by about 1-7 in breadth. 
The nests are usually found on the tops of high trees, and 
are composed of twigs and fine sticks. Occasionally the 
deserted nest of some other species is appropriated. 
Genus, Falcinellus, Bechst. 
Bill long, slender; tarsi lengthened, scutellated anteriorly ; 
toes long and slender, otherwise as in the last; wings with the 
second and third primaries longest ; face nude. 
Falcinellus igneus, Gmelin, 
943.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 770; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 24; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 436; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 279. 
THE GLossy IBIs. 
Length, 22; expanse, 38; wing, 10°75; tarsus, 4°5; bill at 
front, 6. 
Bill dull pale greenish; irides brown; lores and nude orbits 
pale green; legs blackish-green, with a blue garter above the 
knee. 
Adult: head, neck, breast, upper back, and all the under parts 
fine chesnut-red, tinged with brown on the head; lower back, 
rump, wing-coverts, quills and tail dark green, with bronze and 
purplish reflections. 
The young birds of the year are ashy-brown, with white mark- 
ings on the head and breast. After the moult they are brown 
on the head and neck, the feathers whitish edged; the back 
greenish-brown ; wings and tail as in the adult, but less glossed ; 
the lower neck, belly, breast, and thigh-coverts, dusky black, 
with mere or less greenish reflections on the breast ; lores 
whitish, 
