GLOSSY IBIS. 611 
The Female is similar to the male, but somewhat less. 
The young in its second plumage, has the bill dusky, tinged with 
yellow, the bare part of the head dusky; the feet blackish-brown, the 
head, neck and lower parts are greyish-brown, the head and greater 
part of the neck marked with small longitudinal streaks of white, of 
which there are two on each feather. All the upper parts are blackish- 
green, glossy in a less degree than those of the adult. 
On comparing adult American specimens with others obtained on 
the old continent, I can perceive no difference between them. A 
young Mexican bird, and one from India, are also precisely similar. 
I cannot therefore entertain a doubt as to the identity of our bird with 
the Tantalus Falcinellus of Latuam and other European writers, which 
has been shewn by Savieny to be the Black Ibis of the ancients. 
