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ALTRICIAL GRALLATORES — HERODIONES. 
B. Legs and feet- comparatively short and stout, the tarsus with the frontal scutellse more or less 
irregular and interrupted. Adult, with the head and upper portion of neck dark chest- 
nut, the lower neck and lower parts violet-blackish, the lesser wing-coverts metallic 
green and bronzed purple, the back dark metallic green. Young, with the head and 
upper part of neck streaked- with dusky and white, the lower parts dusky, with a violet 
tinge. 
3. P. Ridgwayi. 1 Feathers round base of bill dusky chestnut, or dark rusty ; lores red- 
dish in life. Wing, 10.15-12.00; culmen, 3.40-5.10; tarsus, 2.70-3.85; middle toe, 
1.80-2.30. Hub. Vicinity of Lake Titicaca, Peru ; Chili. 
Pleg adis falcinellus . 
THE GLOSSY IBIS. 
Tantalus falcinellus, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 241, no. 2 (based on Numcnius rostro arcuato, corpora 
castaneo, pedibus obscure virentibus, Kuam. Austr. 350. — Numcnius viridis, Bniss. Av. 5, p. 
326, t. 27, f. 2. — Falcinellus, Gesn. Av. p. 220, etc.). 
Ibis falcinellus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XIV. 1817, 23. — Ronap. Obs. Wils. 1825, no. 199. — Nutt. 
Man. II. 1834, 88. — Aud. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 608, pi. 387 ; Synop. 1839, 257 ; B. Am. VI. 
1843, 50, pi. 358 (adult). 
P/egadis falcinellus, “Kaup,” Fkitscii, Vog. Eur. 1869, Taf. 43, fig. 3, p. 378. — Ridgw. Nom. N. 
Am. B. 1881, no. 503. — Coues, Cheek List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 649. 
Tantalus castancus. Mullet, S. N. -Suppl. 1776, 112 (adult). 
Courly, d’ltalie. Buff. PI. Enl. 1770-84, pi. 819 (adult). 
Bay Ibis, Penn. Arct. Zool. II. 1785, 460 (adult). 
Green Ibis, Lath. Synop. III. i. 1785, 113, sp. 13 (young). 
Glossy Ibis, Lath. t. c. 114, sp. 14 (transition pi.). 
Tantalus viridis, Gmel. S. N. 1. 1788, 648, no. 8 (young). 
Tantalus igneus, Gmel. t. c. 649, no. 9 (adult). 
Falcinellus igneus, Guay, Gen. B. ed. 2, 1841, 87. — Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 503. 
“Ibis noir, Savig. Hist. Myth, de l’lbis, p. 36, fig. 4, juv.” (Elliot). 
“Ibis sacra, Temm. Man. Orn. 1815, 385” (Elliot). 
“ Tringa autumnalis, Hasselq. It. Pal. deutsche Ausg. p. 306 ” (Elliot). 
“ Tantalus mcxicanus,” Ord. Jour. Pliilad. Acad. I. 1817, 52 (not of Gmei..). 
Ibis Ordii, Bonap. C'onsp. List, 1838, 49. — Cass, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 635 (part). — Baird, 
Cat. N. Ain. B. 1859, no. 500. 
Ibis falcinellus, var. Ordii, Coues, Key, 1872, 263 ; Check List, 1873, no. 445 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 517. 
“ Ibis guarauna," Cabot, Pr. Boston Soc. II. 1850, 313, 332 (not of Linn.). 
“Numcnius longirostris,” Gosse, B. Jam. 1847, p. 348 (not of Wilson). 
Tantalus bengalensis, “Licht.” Bonap. Consp. II. 1855, 158. 
Ibis peregrina, “Mull.” Bonap. t. c. 159. 
LIab. Palaearetic region, West Indies, and Eastern United States. Of irregular distribution, 
and only locally abundant in America. 
Sp. Char. Adult: Feathers bordering the base of the bill, all round, blackish. Pileum, cheeks, 
and chin glossy greenish black, with violet-purple reflections. Hind part of the head, whole neck, 
anterior part of the back, and anterior hall of lesser wing-covert region, rich reddish chestnut, the 
back darkest. Lower parts, except the crissum, axillars, and lining of the wing, uniform bright 
reddish chestnut, lighter, brighter, and less purplish than the neck. Remaining upper parts, as 
well as the lining of the wing, axillars, and crissum, glossy, metallic, dark purple, green, and 
bronze ; the posterior part of the back, posterior scapulars, wing-coverts, tertials, rump, upper tail- 
coverts, and tail nearly uniform dull violet-purple, changing to bottle-green in certain lights ; alulae, 
1 Plegadis Ridgwayr 
Falcinellus Ridgwayi, Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. III. July, 1876, 355 (Moho, Conima, and 
Vilquechico, near Lake Titicaca, Peru). — Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, 506. 
“Ibis falcinellus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, 156” (Elliot). 
? “ Ibis Ordii,” Tschudi, Fauna Per. 1844, 298. 
? Ibis brevirostris, Peale, Zool. Expl. Exp. 1848, 219 (Rimac R., Peru). 
