Order ARDEIF0RME8 
No. 228. 
Family PLEGADIDM. 
PLEGADIS FALCINELLUS PEREGRINUS. 
AUSTRALIAN GLOSSY IBIS. 
(Plate 179.)* 
Ibts peregrina Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 159, 1855 ; Celebes. 
Falcinellus igneus (not Gmelin) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 47, 1844 ; id., Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 286, 1865 ; Biggies, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 103, 
1877 ; Bennett, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IV., p. 1059, 1890. 
Ibis peregrina Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 159, 1855. 
Ibis {Falcinellus) igneus Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 340. 
Plegadis falcinellus Salvador!, Ornith. Papua, e Moll., Vol. III., p. 382, 1882 ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 29, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 97, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 944, 1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XII., p. 203, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 97, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, 
Vol. VI., p. 115, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 31, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 
1909, p. 615 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 66, 1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., 
p. 191, 1910 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 104, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, 
p. 177 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 10, 1913 ; Mathews, List 
Birds Austr., p. 78, 1913. 
Ibis falcinellus (not Linne) Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 396, 1889 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. V., 
p. 142, 1890, 
Egatheus falcinellus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 228, 1912. 
Distribution. Australia and Tasmania (extra limital). 
Adult male in summer-plumage. Glossy purphsh-green ; top of head and sides of face 
glossy purple ; entire neck all round, lesser upper wing-coverts and under-surface 
of body rich maroon-chestnut ; under tail-coverts blackish ; axiUaries and under 
wing-coverts glossy green with a purplish tinge ; bastard-wing, primary -coverts 
and quiUs glossy green ; back, wings, scapulars, long innermost secondaries, and 
tail glossy green with purpHsh reflections ; bill ohve-brown, with a hue across the 
fore-head and from the eye to the base of the lower mandible blue-grey ; eyes 
brown, space below the eye flesh-colour ; feet and legs leaden-brown, frontal 
plates of tarsus ohve-brown. Total length 600 mm. ; culmen 138, wing 277, tail 
102, tarsus 97. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but smaller. Total length 490 mm. ; culmen 
110, wing 251, tail 90, tarsus 85. 
*The Plate is lettered Egatheus falcinelltis. 
