362 CLASS AVES. 



Ibis Plumbeus. Tern. Col. 235. 



A white band on the forehead as far as above the eye ; 

 rest of plumage, in general, fine plumbeous ; tail, wing- 

 quills, and upper coverts, blackish. Paraguay and 

 Brazil. 



Black-faced Ibis. Tantalus Melanops. Gm. Lath. 



Bill, and face, which is bare of feathers, black ; 

 crown of head, fulvous-yellow ; back, and scapulars, 

 cinereous ; wing-coverts, bluish-ash, margined with 

 brown. New Year's Island, Brazils, and Central 

 Africa. 



Ibis Chalcoptera. Vieill. Gal. 

 246, or Tant. Hogedash. Lath. 



Eyes, surrounded with a blood-red skin ; head, uni. 

 form grey ; back, and greater wing-coverts, grey 

 brown, bronzed; small coverts, lustrous green, 

 changing into violet ; tarsi, and toes, red. 



Others of this genus have the legs squarely scaled. 

 Their bill, in general, is more slender. 



The Scarlet Ibis. Scol. Rubra. Lin. Tantalus 

 Ruber. Gm. Enl. 80 and 81. Wils. viii. Ixvi. 2. 



Is a bird of all the warm parts of America, remark- 

 able for its fine Hvely red colour, with the end of the 

 wing-quills black. Its young, covered at first with a 

 blackish down, become ash-coloured, and afterwards 

 whitish, when they commence to fly. It is only at 

 two years of age that the red appears, and it after- 



