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Synopsis of the Birds 
240. Ibis alba, Vieill. White, old bird tinged with rose 
color; outer quill-feathers blue-black at tip: face reddish. 
White Ibis , Tantalus albus , Wils. Am. Orn. viii. p. 4S° 
pi. 66 .fig. 3. 
Inhabits as the preceding: common in Florida on the sea 
shore during summer. 
241. Ibis falclnellus, Vieill. Purplish-chesnut ; top of the 
head, middle of the back, wings and tail, metallic green ; 
face blackish. 
Young, head and neck feathers streaked with blackish, and 
margined with whitish ; back and scapulars, brownish-cine- 
reous ; beneath blackish-cinereous ; wings and tail duller. 
Glossy Ibis , Ibis falcinellus , JYob. Am. Orn. Hi. adulto 
Tantalus meocicanus , Ord , J. Sc. Phil. 
Inhabits warm and temperate shore? throughout the globe : 
a rare visitant of the United States. 
FAMILY XX. LIMICOL/E. 
Limicolce , I ittorales , Til. Longir><stres , Cuv. Latr. He - 
lionomi , JRgialites , Vieill. Limicole , Tachidrome , Itanz. 
Scolopacidce, Char adriadce, Vigors. 
Bill generally long, slender, feeble, soft, cylindrical, 
mostly obtuse at the point. Face feathered. Neck mode- 
rate. Feet moderate or elongated, tender ; naked space of 
the tibiae more or less extensive ; tarsus reticulated ; hind toe 
slender, short, articulated high on the tarsus, hardly touch- 
ing the ground at tip, sometimes wanting. Wings elonga- 
ted, falciform, acute, tuberculated. Tail rather short. 
Female larger, similar to the male in color. Young dif- 
fering more or less from the adult. Moult twice in the 
year. 
Live in marshes, muddy places, and around water : never 
alighting on trees. Run swiftly. Feed on insects, worms, 
