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it, returns to the same spot in the spring, passing the winter in 

 Africa. 



Ard. nigra,!..', Enl. 399; and the young, Frisch, 197; Naum. 

 23, f. 32. (The Black Stork.) Blackish, with purple reflec- 

 tions; belly, white. Haunts solitary marshes, and builds in 

 forests.(l) 

 Among various species we may distinguish. 



The Bare-necked Storks, 



Which have a thicker beak than the others, but one composed of 

 a light substance; and among them 



The Pouched Storks, Jlrd. duhia, Gm. drd. algala, Lat. 



Which have an appendage under the middle of the throat, resem- 

 bling a thick sausage, and from under whose wings are procured 

 the feathers forming those light plumes called by the French, Ma- 

 rabous. They are the largest birds of the genus; their belly is white, 

 and their mantle a bronze-black. There are two species, 



Cic. marabou, Tem., Col. 300, from Senegal, with a uniform 

 mantle, and Cic. argala, Tem., Col. 301, from India, whose 

 wing-coverts are edged with white. By means of their broad 

 bill, they are enabled to capture birds on the wing. (2) 



MycteriAj Lin. 



The Jabirus, separated from Ardea by Linnseus, are closely allied to 

 the Storks, and much more so than the latter are to the true Herons; 

 the moderate opening of their beak, the nostrils, the reticulated 

 envelope of the tarsi, and the extent of the membranes between the 

 toes are the same as in the Storks; their mode of life is also similar. 

 Their peculiar character consists in a beak slightly curved upwards 

 near the extremity. 



Myct. americana, L.. ;(3) Enl. 817 (The American Jabiru), 



(1) To this genus also belongs the Maguari, or American Stork, {d. maguari) 

 Vieill. Galer. 254; and Spix, LXXXIX, under the wrong name of Ciconia jubura, 

 which, with the exception of its ash coloured beak, differs but little from our 

 White Stork; the little C. noire de Nuhie {Cic. Mdimii, Lichtenst.) lluppel. 8; 

 the C.violeite {C. leucocephala, Gm.)Enl. 906. 



(2) Add the Cigogne chevelue {C. capillaia,T .), Col. 312. 



(3) Touj/owyow in Cayenne; .^VaVai in Paraguay, Collier rouge, &.c. Barrere has 

 confounded'it with the American OstricJi, which has caused the name of Touyouyou, 

 or Touyou, to be transferred to that bird by Brisson and by Buffon. 



Myderia, a name derived by Linnseus from fAVuritf, nose, proboscis, on accoui)t 

 of its large beak. 



