. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . ressed,oblong, bare before the eyes; neck long and slender; body rather very long, slender; tarsi scutellate; anterior toes connected by mem-branes at the base. Claws rather small, slightly arched, pointed. Wingslong, ample, with the second quill longest. Tail short, nearly even, oftwelve feathers. (Esophagus wide, like that of a Heron; stomach muscular. GLOSSY IBIS. ~ Ibis Falcinellus, Linn. PLATE CCCLVIIL—Male. The first intimation of the existence of this beautiful species of Ibiswithin the
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . ressed,oblong, bare before the eyes; neck long and slender; body rather very long, slender; tarsi scutellate; anterior toes connected by mem-branes at the base. Claws rather small, slightly arched, pointed. Wingslong, ample, with the second quill longest. Tail short, nearly even, oftwelve feathers. (Esophagus wide, like that of a Heron; stomach muscular. GLOSSY IBIS. ~ Ibis Falcinellus, Linn. PLATE CCCLVIIL—Male. The first intimation of the existence of this beautiful species of Ibiswithin the limits of the United States is due to Mr. George Ord of Phila-delphia, the friend and companion of the celebrated Alexander was described by him in the first volume of the Journal of the Academyof Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He states that on the seventh of Mayof the present year (1817), Mr. Thomas Say received from Mr. Oram, ofGreat Egg Harbour, a fine specimen of Tantalus, which had been shotthere. It is the first instance which has come to my knowledge of this ^. GLOSSY IBIS. 51 species having been found in the United States. I was informed that arecent specimen of this bird was, likewise in the month of May, presentedto the Baltimore Museum, and that two individuals were killed in the dis-trict of Columbia. In the sequel Mr. Ord compares it with Dr. Lathamsaccount of the Tantalus Mexicanus of that author, and conjectures that itis the same. It is not a little curious to see the changes of opinion that have takenplace within these few years among naturalists who have thought of com-paring American and European specimens of the birds which have beenalleged to be the same in both continents. The Prince of Musignano, forexample, who has given a figure of the very individual mentioned by , thought at the time when he published the fourth volume of his con-tinuation of Wilsons American Ornithology, that our Glossy Ibis was theone described by the older Eu
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