GLOSSY IBIS. 
Plegadis autumnalis. 
Char Back, wings, and tail dark purple with metallic reflections of 
green and bronze , head, neck, wing-coverts, and under dies 
nut, tinged with purple , bill brown ; legs greenish brown. Length about 
a colony, situated in a marsh or swamp on the bank of a 
river lake or shallow lagoon ; a compact structure more neatly built than 
the nest of any of the Herons, composed of dead f ^ V 
grass • fastened^ to upright reeds or placed on a platform of bent reeds, 
Siest a b„sh"or®tree growing in the water, and occasionally the 
platform bearing the nest floats upon the water. „ „„ v , ,e 
Eggs. 3-4 ; tight blue, or dark blue with a green tinge ; 2.00 X i-45- 
The Glossy Ibis appears to be within the temperate and 
warmer regions almost a general inhabitant of the world. 
On the borders of rivers and lakes it is seen, for example, 
abundant as a bird of passage in Poland, Hungary, Turkey, 
and the Grecian Archipelago; it visits the borders of the 
