so 



GLOSSY IBIS. 



Class II. 



GENUS III. IBIS. 



Bill long, roundish, incurvated. 

 LoRUM, bare of feathers. 

 Tongue short. • - 



Feet of four toes, the three foremost connected 

 , at then' base by a web. . . , . . ,r, . 



1. Glossy. Tantalus Falcinellus. T. facie 

 nigra, pedibus cseruleis, alis 

 caudaque violaceis, corpore 

 castaneo. Lath. Ind. orn. 

 707. id. Syn. v. 113. id. 

 Sup. i. 67. 

 Tantalus igneus. T. corpore 

 nigricante cseruleo viridi et 

 vinaceo varlegato nitente, 

 capite colloque nigris pennis 

 albido fimbriatis. Id. Bid. 

 orn. 7O8. id. Syn. v. 115.? 



Falcinellus. Wil- orn. 2g5. 

 Raii Syn. av. 103. 

 Le Courlis verd. Brisson av. 

 V. 326. Hist, d'ois. vlii. 2g. 

 Le Courlis d'ltalie. PL EnL 



819- 

 Gm. Lin. 648- 

 Scopoli, 1. No. 131. 

 Sowerly. Br. Misc. 35. tab. 



17. Nat. Misc. tab. 705. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. 162. 



Descrip- 

 tion". 



[DR. Latham thus describes a specimen of his 

 Glossy Ibis, shot in Cornwall, and preserved in 

 the late Levei^ian museum. 



" Length almost two feet. Bill five inches, 

 smooth, roundish, much bent, green, fading to 

 olive when dead ; eyelids brown ; irides olive ; 

 ey€s placed in a white space ; under the chin a 



