SANDPIPERS. 199 



150. GLOSSY IBIS. 

 Smaller, 23; head, neck, lesser wing 

 coverts and beneath, dark chestnut; above 

 metallic green, bronze and purple; space in 

 front of eye, greenish; bill and feet, brown, 

 fig. 144. Young, gray-brown, head and neck 

 streaked with white. Warmer parts of 

 Eastern Hemisphere; not uncommon in ex- 

 treme southern portion of eastern U. S. 

 wandering casually north to N. E. and 111. 



151. WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS. 



Differs from last in having a narrow 

 line of white at base of bill, and space in 

 front of eye, lake-red. Western U. S., south 

 to the Argentine Republic; occasionally 

 breeding in Fla. 



Herons. 



Wading birds with long neck and 

 legs and long, pointed bills; wings, broad; 

 tail, short; flight, strong with comparatively 

 slow wing-beats; the neck is doubled back- 

 ward, but the legs are extended out behind. 

 Food chiefly fishes, occasionally crustaceans, 



