GLOSSY IBIS. 611 



The Female is similar to the male, but somewhat less. 



The yomig 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 Latham and other European writers, which 

 has been shewn by Savigny to be the Black Ibis of the ancients. 



