This species has been reported from the Candaba Swamp in central Luzon and Worcester found it abundant in northern Luzon. He says: "I saw Antigone sharpei in large numbers in Cagayan and Isabela during my recent trip, 1906, through those provinces. I am informed that these birds nest on the ground in May, contenting themselves with scraping together and flattening down a little grass on which to deposit their eggs. About August they lose their long wing-feathers and when in this condition can rise but a few feet from the ground. The people of Isabela then pursue them on horseback and take them with lassoes, although according to the statements of the hunters the birds, aided by their wings, run about as fast as deer." Order ARDEIFORMES. HERONS, STORKS, IBISES, AND SPOONBILLS. Body usually compressed; neck and legs very long; plumage full and soft; bill long, normally straight, wedge-shaped, and pointed, but in Ibididæ blunt and decurved, in Plataleidæ broadly spatulate; nostrils near base of bill, elongate; hind toe insistent or but slightly elevated. Nest made of sticks and twigs usually placed in a tree or bush; eggs three to five, blue and unspotted; young helpless at birth. Suborders. a1. Sides of upper mandible with a deep, narrow groove extending from nostrils to tip. ... Plataleæ (p. 157) a2. Sides of upper mandible without any groove. b1. Claws broad and flat, that of middle toe not pectinate. ... Ciconiæ (p. 159) b2. Claws narrow and arched, that of middle toe with its inner edge distinctly pectinate. ... Ardeæ (p. 161) Suborder PLATALEÆ. Families. a1. Bill slender, nearly cylindrical, decidedly decurved for nearly its whole length. ... Ibididæ (p. 157) a2. Bill very broad, flattened, greatly widened toward the tip. ... Plataleidæ (p. 158) Family IBIDIDÆ. Bill long, compressed, and curved downward, its tip blunt and rounded; on each side of culmen a longitudinal groove in the basal portion of which the nostril is pierced. Genus PLEGADIS Kaup, 1829. Characters same as those given for the Family. 131. PLEGADIS AUTUMNALIS (Linnæus). GLOSSY IBIS. Tringa autumnalis Linnæus in Hasselquist, Reise Palæstina (1762), 306. Plegadis falcinellus Oates, Bds. Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 271; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 29; Hand-List (1899), 1, 187; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 102; Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. (1905), 18, 89; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 31. Mindanao (Mearns). China, Africa, Jamaica, Australia, eastern United States, southern Europe to India.