. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . Fig. 37. Foot of Heron, a. Scutellate tarsus, b. Pectinate claw. Family 18. Ibises.(Only one Michigan species, the Glossy Il)is.) 66. Glossy Ibis. Plegadis autumnalis (Linn.). (186) : Ibis, Il)is, P>ay , IMack Ciii-lew.—Tringa autumnalis, —Ibis falcinellus, Vicill., Bonap., Aud., Nutt.—Plegailis faleincllus, Ri
. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . Fig. 37. Foot of Heron, a. Scutellate tarsus, b. Pectinate claw. Family 18. Ibises.(Only one Michigan species, the Glossy Il)is.) 66. Glossy Ibis. Plegadis autumnalis (Linn.). (186) : Ibis, Il)is, P>ay , IMack Ciii-lew.—Tringa autumnalis, —Ibis falcinellus, Vicill., Bonap., Aud., Nutt.—Plegailis faleincllus, Ridgw., 1881, Figure 31. Its large size, chestnut and dark iridescent plumage, and decurved billfive inches or more in length, render the species unmistakable. At a littledistance the living bird appears to be glossy black. WATER BIRDS. 125. Distribution.—Warmer parts of Eastern Hemisphere, West Indies,and southern portions of eastern United States, wandering northward toNew England and Illinois. In America only locally abundant and ofirregular distribution. In Michigan this species can be considered only as a very rare was killed October 6, 1884 on a marsh near the shore of Saginaw Bay,just west of Bay Newell A. Eddy,who got the specimenfor his own collectionsays it is a young bird,without doubt, of theyear, wanting on thehead entirely and to aconsiderable degree onthe back the beautifulgloss and purple reflec-tions of the adult bird(0. & O. X, p. 9). Thisspecimen, according toMoseley, was at one timein the Kent ScientificInstitute at Grand Rap-ids, but I have failed ^toidentify it. In Novem-ber, 1905, I examinedthis collection carefullyand found two specimensof the Glossy Ibis; one apoorly mounted, imma-ture specimen markedGrand Rapids, and catalogued as No. 20189, but without other data; th
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