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a mounted bird had been displayed in recent years in a drugstore in 

 Santiago. Inspection of twenty or more little pharmacies in that 

 city on May 31 gave no trace of such a specimen. 



The wood ibis is as large as the great blue heron but with much 

 heavier body, shorter legs, longer, curved bill, and the head and neck 

 in the adult bare of feathers. The wing and tail feathers are glossy 

 black and the rest of the plumage is white. The immature bird has 

 the head and neck more or less feathered but is easily distinguished 

 by the long, curved bill. 



Superfamily THRESKIORNITHIDES 



Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE 



Subfamily Threskiornithinae 



PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS FALCINELLUS (Linnaeus) 

 GLOSSY IBIS, COCO PRIETO, PECHEUR, IBIS NOIR 



Tantalus falcinellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, pt. 1, 1766, p. 241 (Austria, 

 Italy). 



Pecheur, Descourtilz, Voy. Nat., vol. 2, 1809, pp. 233-235 (Haiti, rather 

 rare). 



Glossy Ibis, Beebe, Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 108 (Etang Miragoane). 



Tantalus Falcinellus, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, pp. 

 152, 157 (Haiti, specimen). 



Ibis erythrorhyncha Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, Nov. 14, 1837 (publ. 

 June 14, 1838) p. 127 (Haiti).— H arte aub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Plegadis autumnalis, Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 

 355 ("Colorado River," specimen). 



Plegadis falcinellus, Cory, Cat. Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, 

 p. 151 (of possible occurrence). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 317, 

 322 (listed). 



Plegadis falcinellus falcinellus, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 

 80, 1928, p. 490 (Etang Miragoane, Trou Caiman, Artibonite Plain, Fort 

 Liberty, Lake Enriquillo). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 361 (Artibonite Sloughs). 



Resident; fairly common locally. 



In the Dominican Republic the glossy ibis seems to be confined 

 principally to the southern section since the only report north of the 

 central mountain range is that of Verrill who records " one specimen 

 taken at Colorado River," which is near Sanchez. 



Abbott found them common on the open marshes and secured 

 specimens at the eastern end of Lake Enriquillo October 2, 3, and 5, 

 1919. He saw several and shot one at Lake Rincon, near Cabral, on 

 March 15, 1922. Bond also records them from Lake Enriquillo. 



In Haiti the species seems more abundantly distributed, though 

 Descourtilz in 1799 reported them rather rare. A bird secured by 

 Hearne, apparently a young individual, was described as a distinct 



