312 Synopsis of the Birds 



240. Ibis alba, Vieill. White, old bird tinged with rose 

 color; outer quill-feathers blue-bbck at tip : fact reddish. 



White Ibis, Tantalus albus, Wils. Am. Om. viii. p. 43. 

 pi. 66. fig. 3. 



Inhabits as the preeeding: common in Florida on the sea 

 shore during summer. 



241. Ibis falcijnfllus, Vieill. Purplish-chesnut ; top of the 

 head, middle of the back, wings and tail, metallic green ; 

 face blackish. 



Young, head and neck feathers streaked with blackish, and 

 margined with whitish ; back and scapulars, brownish-cine- 

 reous ; beneath blackish-cinereous ; wings and tail duller. 



Glossy Ibis, Ibis falcinellus, Nob. Am. Orn. in. adult. 

 Tantalus mexicanus, Ord, J. .n'c. Phil. 



Inhabits warm and temperate shores throughout the globe : 

 a rare visitant of the United States. 



FAMILY XX. LIMICOL^. 



Limicola, T.ittorales, III. Longir>/stres, Cm. Latr. He- 

 lionomi, JEgialites, Vieill. Limicole, Tachidrome, Jtianz. 

 Scolopacidce, Cha> adriadte, Vigors. 



Bill generally long, slender, feeble, soft, cylindrical, 

 mostly obtuse at the point. Face feathered. Neck mode- 

 rate. Feet moderate or elongated, tender ; naked space of 

 the tibia? more or less extensive ; tarsus reticulated ; hind toe 

 slender, short, articulated high on the tarsus, hardly touch- 

 ing the ground at tip, sometimes wanting. Wings elonga- 

 ted, falciform, acute, tuberculated. Tail rather short. 



Female larger, similar to the male in color. Young dif- 

 fering more or less from the adult. Moult twice in the 

 year. 



Live in marshes, muddy places, and around water : never 

 alighting on trees. Run swiftly. Feed on insects, worms. 



