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streaked with whitish; upper parts dusky green; bill yellowish and dusky; 

 legs yellowish. 



Length 24 inches; extent 36; wing ic3-ii.6; tail 4; bill 4.5-5.5; tibia 

 bare 2.5 ; tarsus 3-4; middle toe and claw about 3. 



This species is an occasional summer visitant in New York. Besides 

 many riimors of its being seen, we have the following records of specimens 

 taken : 



Southampton, L. I. Sept. 12, 



1847. Dutcher, Auk, 10: 271 

 Canarsie bay, L. I. Oct. 10, 



1848. Dutcher, Auk, 10: 271 

 Auburn, N. Y. 1854. William 



Hopkins, Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. Proc. 5:13 

 Tonawanda swamp, N. Y. May 



1889. Posson, Auk, 17: 193 

 Dunkirk, N.Y. April 1894. (J. 



W. Ware). Savage, Auk, 12; 



393. (A specimen evidently 



this same bird reported by 



Kirkover, Auk, 15: 50) 

 Rochester, N. Y. 1898. (Miller, 



Newark, N. Y.). D. Bruce 



do^o/^o i-iSroi- XT V Mqit- Ti-i^o Glossyibis. Plegadis autumnalis (Hasselquist). From 



Seneca river, i\. 1. may 1902. specimen (immatvire) in state Museum. 1 nat. size 



3 seen, i shot. F. S. Wright 

 Cayuga, N. Y. May ii, 1907. (3 seen, 2 taken). (Parker). Fuertes, Auk, 24: 338 

 " May 21, 1907. (3 seen). " " " 



The Glossy ibis inhabits the tropical and warm temperate zones, 



in the United States straying northward to the Great Lakes and New 



England. The specimens taken by Mr Parker in the Montezuma marshes 



were evidently about to breed, the ova in the female being as large as 



BB shot. 



Plegadis guarauna (Lmnaeus) 



White-faced Glossy Ibis 



Scolopax guarauna Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 12. 1766. i : 242 

 Plegadis guarauna A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No 187 



gnarau'na, South American name 



Distinguishing marks. Similar, both in size and color to the Glossy 



ibis, but the lores of the present species are lake-red in life and the feathers 



