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Ibis falcinellus, var. ordi, Coues, B. of N.W. Am. p. 517(1874). 

 Fudocimus falcinellus (L.), Bocage, J. f. Orn. 1876, p. 300. 

 Falcinellus rufus (Scop.), Keich. J. f. Orn. 1877, p. 146. 

 Plegadis falcinellus (L.), Salvin, Ibis, 1878, p. 112. 



Ibis falcinelle, French ; Morito, Garza diabolo, Spanish ; Mignattaio, Italian ; Velleran, 

 Maltese; Madzet el Md, Arabic; Maiza, Moorish; brauner Sichler, Nimmersatt, 

 German ; Sort-Ibis, Danish and Norwegian ; Svart-Ibis, Swedish ; Karavaika, Kara- 

 waschka, Russian. 



Figure notabiles. 



DAubenton, PL Enl. 819; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 5; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. 33a; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 43. fig. 3 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 219 ; Sundevall, Svensk. 

 Fogl. pi. 77. fig. 3; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 311; id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 47; id. B. of 

 Austr. vi. pi. 47; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pis. 201, 202; Eoux, Orn. Prov. pi. 309; 

 Audub. B. of Am. pi. 358. 



Ad. fronte et facie frontali viridi-nigris metallico niteutibus : capite reliquo, collo, regione interscapular^ 

 tectricibus alarum minoribus et corpore toto subtus lsete aeneo-rufescentibus, dorso purpureo-nitente : 

 corpore reliquo supra, alis et Cauda nigricantibus viridi et purpureo nitentibus : subcaudalibus purpureo- 

 nigris : facie frontali nuda plumbeo-cinerea : rostro et pedibus nigricanti-cinereis : iride fusca. 



Juv. capite, collo, dorso et corpore subtus haud rufis sed saturate fuscis, corpore supra minus nitente, capite et 

 collo superiore albo striatis. 



Adult Female (Barcelona, 10th May) . Forehead and fore part of the head greenish black, with a metallic 

 gloss ; rest of the head, neck, fore part of the back, edge of the shoulder, and underparts generally rich 

 deep copper-brown; back slightly glossed with purple and violet-purple; rest of the upper parts, 

 including the rump, upper tail-coverts, wings, and tail blackish, richly glossed with purple and green ; 

 under tail-coverts rich purplish black ; bill dark slaty blackish, bare portion at the base slate-grey ; iris 

 brown ; legs blackish grey. Total length about 22 inches, culmen 5*2, wing 1T5, tail 4 - 7, tarsus 4"0. 



Adult Male. Resembles the female, but is rather larger in size. 



Young (Madagascar) . Differs from the adult in having all the reddish brown in the plumage replaced by 

 dark dull brown ; and the upper parts are much less glossed, the head and upper neck are finely striped 

 with white, and the bill and legs are much paler than in the adult. 



Young in down (Sarepta) . Covered with rather short, close, black down, with a broad white band over the 

 crown; legs and bill yellowish, the latter black at the base and tip, and with a central black band. 



The range of the present species extends over Central and Southern Europe, Africa as far south 

 as the Zambesi, Asia as far east as Cochin China, and southward to Australia ; and it is also 

 found in the Southern States .of North America, southward at least as far as Mexico. 



In Great Britain it only occurs as a rare straggler at irregular intervals, though it would 

 appear that formerly it was more numerous than it now is. There does not seem to be any 

 thing to show that it has bred with us ; and it has usually been obtained on the autumn passage. 

 Yarrell cites instances of its occurrence in Cornwall, Devonshire, Surrey, Berkshire, Kent, 



