stance in which this structureras wanting, though the- bird
was examined by those who had found this anatomical peculiarity
in every example of the! species-they had previously
examined. I am therefore induced to,-..suppose, that as this
formation: of the vocal organs is known to ex ist'in ^ d femaFes
-as well as in old males,” that, like the occipital crest', neither-
sex obtain it "fill they haveïacquired a-certain degree of
maturity.V '
The representation below is one third'ies's^than ike. natural
size. :
GRALLATORES. ARDEIDÆ.
T H E GLOSSY IBIS.
Taniïiiùs falcinellus:
|pp,1' > igüètiS'
Ibis&it Icinél lus,
TKe Glossy Ibis, 'P enn. Brit. Zool. vol, ii. p. 30.
JMqn3v Ornith. DjJct. '
; n'shSiu f „BïwrüË1,.Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 35.
„ F èem. Brit. ‘A;n. p. 102.
' See#y^ Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 56.
Brit. Vert.'p. 194.
‘ I’/f, • of Europe,-pt. xii.
j ’MRm Jalcinelle, TEMM.*Man. d’Omith. v o l. p'. p. 593.
I bis. Generic CharactersfejfBppih long, slender, curved, large at the base,
the poigt depressed,'obt u§e,' rounded; upper mandible deeply grooved throughout
itsil'engtlr.,-1 .-Nostrils on -'the- upper surface and hear the base of the beak,
©blgng;, narrow, pietgedj in--.a? -tnginhrane which covers part of the aperture.
[ Face, lore and sometimes^'tKe, chin naked, without feathers.- s Begs rather long,
nuked ;a|)ove'the tarsal joint; three toe» in front, one behind, the anteiorr toes