. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . o New England, Nebraska, and Arizona. 187. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). White-faoed Glossy and eyelids naked, rest of head well feathered ; bill long and narrow, gentlycurved downward,grooved from nos-tril to tip. Adults :lores red ; facewhitish; , shoulders,and under partsdark rich chestnut; crown and wings ^i- Fig. 83. glossed with iri-descent purplish and greenish. Young: head and neck streaked with whiteand duskv. and under parts g-rayish
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . o New England, Nebraska, and Arizona. 187. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). White-faoed Glossy and eyelids naked, rest of head well feathered ; bill long and narrow, gentlycurved downward,grooved from nos-tril to tip. Adults :lores red ; facewhitish; , shoulders,and under partsdark rich chestnut; crown and wings ^i- Fig. 83. glossed with iri-descent purplish and greenish. Young: head and neck streaked with whiteand duskv. and under parts g-rayish brown. Length : li)-20, wing , bill :!.75-(i.()(), tai-sus Distribution.—Tropical America and western United States. Texas,and Lower California to Oregon, and casually to British Columbia andFlorida. Nest. — Among or on rushes, made of stems of rushes and variousother plants. Eggs : usually 3, greenish blue. The glossy ibis is a marsh bird, usually seen in tlocks varyingfrom a dozen to fifty, cireling overhead or wading in the shallowwater of a niarsli, slough, or irrigated liekl. At a distance the birds. 72 STORKS AND WOOD IBISES look as black as ravens, but their flight is crane-like, and walking orwading they have the dignified pose of the cranes and herons. Nodoubt the name black curlew comes from their curved bill, but theyare neither cranes nor curlews. According to Goss, they feed oncraw^fish, snails, minnows, frogs, and insects. Vernon Bailey. FAMILY CICONIIDiE : STORKS AND WOOD IBISES. ^ KEY TO GENERA. 1. Bill curved downward and blunt at tip . . Tantalus, p. Bill inclined uj^ward and sharp at tip Mycteria, p. 72. GENUS TANTALUS. 188. Tantalus ioculator Linn. Wood Ibis. Adults. — Head and upper neck naked and, except for a smooth squarepatch on crow n, scurfy. Plumage mainly white; wing- quills and tailgreenish and purplish black; under wing coverts pinkish in breeding*plumage. Young: whole head and neck except face covered with green-
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