498 BIRDS—TANTALIDZ. 
PELGADIS FALCINELLUS (L.) Kaup (?). 
Glossy Ibis. 
Ibis ordii, WHEATON, Ohio Agric Rep. for 1860, 368, 377 ; Reprint, 1861, 10. 
Ibis falcinellus, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 473 ; Reprint, 
1875, 13. 
Ibis falcinellus, var. erdii, Cours, Birds of N. W., 1874, 517.—LANGDON, Cat. Birds of 
CinAeninio: 
Plegadus falcinellus, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 188; 
Reprint, 22. 
Glossy Ibis, KirTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 164. 
Ibis falcinellus, BONAPARTR, Obs. Wils., 1825, No. 199. 
Ibis ordit, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 49. 
Ibis falcinellus var. ordii, Couns, Key, 1872, 263. 
Pelyadis falcinellus, , Ibis, 1873, 112. 
Plumage rich dark-chestnut, ehanging to glossy dark-green with purplish reflections 
on the head, wings and elsewhere; bill dark; young similar, much duller, or grayish- 
brown, especially on the head and neck whieh are whits streaked. Claws slender, noarly 
straight; head bare only about the eyes and between the forks of the jaw. Length, 
about 2 feet; wing, 10-11; tail, 4; bill, 44; tarsus, 33; middle toe and claw, 3. 
Habitat, United States, southerly, strayizg north to Massachusetts and Ohio. 
Extremely rare or accidental, only one record of its occurrence known 
tome. Dr. Kirtland, after quoting from the Boston Traveler, [June] 28, 
1é50, an account of the capture of this species at Cambridge and Middle- 
boro, Massachusetts, and Middletown, Connecticut, says: 
“To the above we would add that two of these interesting birds, probably a pair, 
were seen two years since, near Fairport, Lake county. One of them, a beautiful male, 
was shot by Mr. Prugen, and forwarded te us. It was duly skinned and mounted, aud 
may now be seen standing along side of a Scarlet Ibis, fromthe banks of the Amazon, 
in the second case south of the door, in the cabinet of Nat. Hist., at the Cleve. Mad. Coll. 
Mr. Prugen has furnished us with several rare birds; among others a fine specimen of 
Wilson's Phalarepe, and a pair of Great Marbled Godwits.” 
Dr. Coues gives the following brief account of this bird (Birds N. W., 
517), to which may be added that later investigations have shown it to be 
not uncommon at Utah Lake and other localities in the Western United 
States, where it is known as the “ Black Snipe” and “ Black Curlew ;” 
and Mr. Ridgway describes two other species of this genus in the United 
States, one at least of which is tenable: 
‘The Glossy Ibis is not figured in Wilson’s Ornithology, and remained an unknown 
inhabitant of the United States up to the termination of that author’s labors. In 1817 
@ specimen was taken in New Jersey, and annonnced by Mr. Ord under the the name of 
Tantalus mexicanus. Since that time it has been found at irregular intervals along our 
coast, chiefly in the Southern and Middle districts, but occasionally as far north as 
Massachusetts; where, however, its occurrence must be considered as accidenital.\ 
Audubon says that he found it in flocks in Texas, but gives only a meagre account of its 
