. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . r attack serpents, as had longbeen believed. They are generally gregarious. Both havea powerful and elevated flight, their pectoral muscles beingvery thick ; they fly with the neck and feet extended hori-zontally, and at intervals simultaneously emit low and veryhoarse cries. When they have alighted on newly uncoveredplaces, they may be seen for
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . r attack serpents, as had longbeen believed. They are generally gregarious. Both havea powerful and elevated flight, their pectoral muscles beingvery thick ; they fly with the neck and feet extended hori-zontally, and at intervals simultaneously emit low and veryhoarse cries. When they have alighted on newly uncoveredplaces, they may be seen for hours in the same spot,unceasingly thrusting their bill into the mud. They never,like our Curlews, start off and run with rapidity, but alwaysadvance step by step. M. Audubon states that the WhiteIbis nestles in trees or bushes, like some Herons, layingthree spotted eggs. The young, at first covered with thickdown, often leave the nest long before they are able to fly,and are easily caught. The flight of this species, he says,is rapid and protracted, and at times, like the Red Ibis andTantalus Loculator, it rises to a great licight, ])erformingvarious evolutions. It feeds on crayfish, worms, and mollusca. 403 IBIS FALCINELLUS. THE GLOSSY ^sfe^^. Fio. 39. Tantalus Falcinellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 241. Tantalus Falcinellus. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 707. Tantalus igncus, T. viridis. Gmcl. Lath. Young. LIbis noir. Savigny. Hist. Nat. et Mith. de Ilbis. p. 36. Glossy Ibis. Mont. Orn. Diet. Ibis falcinclle. Ibis Falcinellus. Tcmm. Man. dOm. II. 598. Glossy Ibis. Ibis Falcinellus. Sclb. Illustr. II. 194. Ibis Falcinellus. Glossy Ibis. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 194. Ibis Falcinellus. Bonap. Comp. List, 49. Head feathered, excepting the loral spaces. Adult withthe feathers of the head and neck lanceolate ayid glossy; theneck, breast, and fore part of the hack, deep chestnut-red;the hind p)(iii of the hack, icings, and tail green, glossed ivithbronze and purple, the plumage generally with s
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