EUDOCIMUS ALBUS : WHITE IBIS. 25/ 



that he has in his possession also a specimen of this 

 species taken at East Orleans, May 5, 1878. This, 

 with the specimens above recorded by Dr. Brewer and 

 Mr. Cory, makes three that were taken at nearly the 

 same date and near the same locality on Cape Cod, 

 during the first week in May, the present year" (Bull. 

 Nutt. Club, iii, 1878, p. 152). 



Referring to this visit of May, 1878, quite like that 

 which occurred in May, 1850, Dr. Brewer says: "Mr. 

 Frank L. Tileston informs me that in the following 

 August [of 1878], several specimens of what were called 

 " black curlews ' ' were noticed on Prince Edward's Island ; 

 one of them was shot by a gentleman of Boston, but was 

 not preserved" (Pr. Bost. Soc, xx, 1879, p. 272). 



WHITE IBIS. 



EUDOCIMUS ALBUS (Zz««.) Wa^/. 



Chars. General characters of Plegadis, but face more denuded, the 

 whole chin being bare in the adult ; claws stout, obtuse, curved. 

 Plumage not metallic ; entirely white in the adult, with several 

 outer primaries glossy black at the ends. Bare parts of head, 

 and most of bill, with the legs, orange, red, or carmine ; bill 

 dusky at end ; iris blue. Young brownish with whitish rump and 



, under parts and gray tail. Length, about 26.00; wing, 11. 50- 

 12.50; tail, 5.00 ; bill, 5.00-7.00; tarsus, 3.50; middle toe and 

 claw, 2.50. 



This is an abundant bird of the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States, rarely straying even to the Middle Districts. 

 Two specimens are noted as having been taken on Long 

 Island (Giraud's B. L. I., 1844, p. 275). There is but a 

 single authentic New England case of the kind — that 



