Plate CCCXCVII. Adult Male and Young.
Bill, feet, and bare parts of head, pale lake; plumage bright scarlet,
excepting the quills, which are white, and the terminal portion of the
outer four primaries, which are bluish-black. Young in first plumage
with the bill and feet brownish-grey, the bare parts of the head pale
flesh-colour; plumage of head, neck, and upper parts, brownish-grey,
of lower, white.
_Adult_, 29; wing, 11-1/4.
Accidental. Three specimens seen by me in Louisiana.
Scarlet Ibis, Tantalus ruber, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 41.
Ibis rubra, Bonap. Syn. p. 311.
Scarlet Ibis, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 84.
Scarlet Ibis, Ibis rubra, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 62.