GLOSSY IBIS. 609 
wanderer who has lost his way. It exists in Mexico, however, in vast 
numbers. In the spring of 1837, I saw flocks of it in the Texas; but 
even there it is merely a summer resident, associating with the White 
Ibis, along the grassy margins of the rivers and bayous, and apparently 
going to and returning from its roosting places in the interior of the 
country. Its flight resembles that of its companion, the White Ibis, 
and it is probable that it feeds on the same kinds of crustaceous ani- 
mals, and breeds on low bushes in the same great associations as 
that species, but we unfortunately had no opportunity of verifying this 
conjecture. Mr Nutra tt, in his Ornithology of the United States and 
Canada, says that “a specimen has occasionally been exposed for sale 
in the market of Boston.” 
I have given the figure of a male bird in superb plumage, procur- 
ed in Florida, near a wood-cutter’s cabin, a view of which is also given. 
Tanratus Fatcrnetuus, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 241.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. 
p- 707. 
Isrs Faucinettus, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat.—Ch. Bonaparte, Synopsis of 
Birds of United States, p. 311.— Wagler, Syst. Avium. 
Gtossy Isis, Isrs Fauctnetius, Ch. Bonap. Amer. Ornith. vol. iv. p. 23. 
TAaNTALUS IGNEUS, Gmel. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 649.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 708. 
Adult. 
TanTazus virinis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. vol. 1. p. 648.— Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. p, 707. 
‘Young. 
NuMENIUS CASTANEUS, Briss. vol. v. p. 329. Adult. 
Numentvs viripis, Briss. vol. v. p. 326. Young. 
Tanratus Mexicanvus ? Ord, Journal of Acad. of Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. i. 
p- 53. 
Bay or Gtossy Isis, Nuttall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 88. 
Adult Male. Plate CCCLXXXVII. 
Bill very long, slender, higher than broad, compressed, tapering, 
acute, obtuse. Upper mandible with the dorsal line arched in its 
whole length, the ridge convex, broader towards the end, the sides at 
the base nearly erect, towards the end very convex and narrow, the 
ridge separated in its whole length from the sides by a deep narrow 
groove, the edges inflected and sharp. Nostrils basal, dorsal, linear, 
direct. Lower mandible more slender than the upper, its angle very 
narrow, and protracted in the form of a groove to the tip, the sides 
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