GLOSSY IBIS. 



GRALLATORES. 



571 



ARDEIDM 



Ibisfalcindlus, 



THE GLOSSY IBIS. 



Ibis falcinettus. 



Tantalus falcinellus, The Glossy Ibis, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 30. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 35. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 102. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 56. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 194. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 



Ibisfalcinelle, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 598. 



IBIS. Generic Characters. Beak long, slender, curved, large at the base, the 

 point depressed, obtuse, rounded ; upper mandible deeply grooved throughout its 

 length. Nostrils on the upper surface and near the base of the beak, oblong, 

 narrow, pierced, in a membrane which covers part of the aperture. Face, lore, 

 and sometimes the chin naked, without feathers. Legs rather long, naked above 

 the tarsal joint ; three toes in front, one behind, the anterior toes united by a 



