The Vanduria is usually seen singly or in pairs, and sometimes, but rarely, in small companies of half a dozen birds. In its habits it is like a Tantalus, wading in the shallow water of the marshes, and devouring eels, frogs, fish, &c. After examining the well-filled stomachs of a few individuals, one is strongly tempted to believe that the beautiful long beak of this Ibis has "forgotten its cunning" as a probe. At intervals in the daytime it utters, standing on the ground, its resonant metallic cry. It is wary and has a strong easy flight, and is a great wanderer, but I am not able to say whether it possesses a regular migration or not. The celebrated naturalist Natterer procured specimens of this Ibis in the lagoons of Caiçara, in the Brazilian Province of Matogrosso, in September and November, 1825, but it is not mentioned by general writers on the birds of S.E. Brazil. 330. PHIMOSUS INFUSCATUS (Licht.). (WHISPERING IBIS.) +Ibis infuscata+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 511 (Rio Paraná). +Phimosus infuscatus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 127; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1878, p. 63 (Buenos Ayres); _Salv. Ibis_, 1880, p. 363 (Salta); _Elliot, P. Z. S._ 1877, p. 495. _Description._--Plumage dark bronzy green, glossed with purple; fore part and sides of head and neck naked, red; bill and feet red: whole length 24·0 inches, wing 11·5, tail 6·0, bill 5·2. _Female_ similar. _Hab._ South America from Colombia south to Argentina. Of this Ibis, which ranges from Colombia to the Argentine Republic, a few individuals come as far south as the pampas of Buenos Ayres. The fore part of the head and throat being unfeathered, suggested to Azara the name of _Afeytado_, or "shaved," but about its habits he has nothing to say, nor does he mention its peculiar voice, or, perhaps it would be more correct to say, its want of voice; for it seems quite silent unless one comes near to it and listens very intently, when he will be able to hear little sigh-like puffs of sound as the bird flies away. It seems strange that this member of a loquacious loud-voiced family should be reduced to speak, as it were, in whispers! On two or three occasions I have seen as many as half a dozen individuals together; at other times I have seen one or two associating with the Glossy Ibis. Azara's name "Shaved" Ibis seems well enough in Spanish, just as his "Throat-cut" for a Starling with a scarlet throat does not strike one as at all shocking in that language; but for an English name I fancy that "Whispering Ibis," from the whisper-like sound the bird emits, would be more suitable, or, at all events, better sounding. It is possible that two races of this Ibis exist on the South-American continent; for in Brazil and further north it is said to have a loud cry, uttered when taking wing, as in the case of the Glossy Ibis; and one of its native names in the tropics--_curri-curri_--is said to be an imitation of its usual note.