650 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. - HEBODIONES - IBIDES 



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jaw stop a little short of the hard hase of the niaudible. lou g, i s ^^ j^ j 



iwnL): RcnarUahly lustrous ^^^^^^^r^^^^^^^^^^^^^- 

 nlivlv hlotched or regularly banded with piukish-white. inisgrti-uu i &, 



ularly blotcneu or legui^ ^ . ^ • , tni f„ll orowth ei-adually t'lvirtg way through a 



tuting Ibis thalassinus of some, is retained till tuU growtc, giaaua y g 5 j 



FIG 454 -European Spoonbill, PlaUdea lencorocUa, J nat. size. (From Brel.m.) 

 brownish or grayish to the purple-chestnut and iridescent plumage^ Chicl. 1-*;* «^*^^^° 

 blackish down, with whitish bill. Southwestern U. S., especially Texas ; N. to Kansas , W. 

 it New Mexico and Arizona to California (to Oregon?), and far S. in tropical America 

 tuning by thousands at some points along the Rio Grande. Nest m vast heronries wi h 

 V rLs herons, in the beds of reeds and rushes, rising iu air by "hundreds of acres when a gun 

 7^1 Nest strongly and compactly woven of dead reeds, affixed by twmmg to broken down 



