124 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
brilliant on under surface of wings and tail. Young: Head and neck streaked 
with white and dusky, and lower parts uniform grayish brown or dusky, the upper 
parts much as in the adult. ygs plain greenish verditer blue. 
a', Legs ‘and feet long and slender, the tarsus with a nearly continuous frontal series 
of transverse scutelle. Adult with neck, back, lesser wing-coverts, and 
lower parts rich chestnut. Young with lower parts dull grayish brown. 
b', Adult: Lores greenish in life, blackish in dried skins ; feathers surround- 
ing base of bill blackish. Downy young: Blackish, “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.” (Dresser.) Length 
about 22.00-25.00, wing 10.20-11.85, culmen 4.30-5.45, tarsus 2.90-4.30, 
middle ‘toe 2.10-2.80. Hggs 2.01 x 1.47. Hab. Warmer parts of the 
eastern hemisphere; also, more southern portion of eastern United 
States, and West Indies.. 186. P. autumnalis (HasseLq.). Glossy Ibis. 
b%. Adult: Lores lake-red in life, pale brownish or yellowish in dried skins; 
feathers surrounding base of bill white. Young not obviously different 
from corresponding stage of P. autumnalis. Downy young when newly 
hatched: Clothed with uniform blackish down, the bill whitish, with 
dusky base. Older: Similar, but base and tip of bill, and band across 
middle portion, blackish ; the intervening spaces pinkish white. Length 
about 19.00-26.00, wing 9.30-10.80, culmen 3.75-6.00, tarsus 3.00-4.40, 
middle toe 2.10-2.85. Eggs 2.05 x 1.41. Hab. Tropical America in 
general (except West Indies?), south to Argentine Republic and Chili, 
and western North America, from Texas and Lower California to 
OVEGON ..ceosseevenee 187. P. guarauna (Linn.). White-faced Glossy Ibis. 
a’. Legs and feet comparatively short and stout, the tarsus with frontal scutelle 
more or less irregular and interrupted. Adult with head and upper neck 
dark chestnut-brown, the lower neck and lower parts violet-blackish ; lesser 
wing-coverts metallic green and bronzed purple, the back dark metallic 
green. Young with lower parts dusky, glossed with violet. Wing 10.15- 
12.00, culmen 3.40-5.10, tarsus 2.70-3.85, middle toe 1.80-2.30. Hab. Vicinity 
of Lake Titicaca, Peru; Chili. 
P. ridgwayi (ALLEN). Peruvian Glossy Ibis.) 
Famity CICONIIDAZ.—Tue Storxs anp Woop IstsEs, (Page 122.) 
Genera. 
a}, Bill decurved toward end, with the tip blunt and rounded; toes lengthened, the 
middle one at least half as long as the tarsus. (Subfamily Tantaline.) 
b.. Adult with whole head and part of neck naked, the skin hard and scurfy, 
except on top of head, which is covered with a smooth, nearly quadrate, 
1 Faleinellus ridgwayi ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. iii, July, 1876, 355. Plegadis ridgwayi Rinew., in 
B.B.& R. Water B. N. Am. i. 1884, 94, 
