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WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS. ROSEATE SPOONBILL. 
Fortunately, this remarkable bird takes kindly to captivity, 
and the Zoological Park is never without a good-sized flock. 
Their strange form, showy colors and droll attitudes render 
them unusually interesting to visitors. 
With the birds of the above species are shown a few speci- 
mens of the Kuropean Flamingo, (P. roscus), which is al- 
most white. The only parts which show the characteristic 
searlet of this genus, are the wing coverts, which are pale 
red, or pink. 
The Scarlet Ibis, (Guara rubra), is for its size the most 
showy bird in existence, not even excepting the birds of 
paradise. Excepting the black primaries, every feather on 
the adult bird in perfect plumage is of a brilliant Chinese 
vermilion color, visible in nature for a long distance. The 
immature birds are mottled and patched with white. This 
species once came as far north as southern Florida, but now 
it is found only from Cuba southward. They frequent the 
mud banks at the various mouths of the Orinoco, and not 
long since were quite abundant on the coast of British 
Guiana. 
The White-Faced Glossy Ibis, (Plegadis guarauna), is not 
a rare bird in captivity, and it will doubtless be possible to 
maintain this species perpetually in the Flying Cage and 
Aquatic-Bird House. 
The Wood Ibis, (Tantalus loculator)—The Park obtains 
its supply of birds of this species from Florida, where they 
breed, in very greatly reduced numbers, on the headwaters 
of the St. Johns. This bird is a very satisfactory member of 
avian society. -Although amply large to lord it over the 
