WOOD IBIS. 



(Tantahis loctdator, Lin. Wilson, viii. p. 39.pl. 66. fig. 1. [adult.] 

 Curicaca, Marcgrave. p. 191. Buffon, Ois. vii. p. 276. PI. En- 

 lum, 868. JVood Pelican, Catesby, i. p. 81. Lath. iii. p. 105. 

 Phil. Museum, No. 3862.) 



Sp. Charact. — White, face and head greenish blue ; quills and tail 

 black, with colored reflections. — Young blackish; with the head 

 and neck yellowish white ; the belly cinereous. — Female ■with the 

 head and chin only denuded. 



This is another tribe of singular wading birds, which 

 emigrate in the summer to a certain distance, on either side 

 *of the equator ; being found occasionally as far north as Vir- 

 ginia, as far south, in the other hemisphere, as the savan- 

 nahs of Cayenne and Brazil, and in other parts of South 

 America. In the compass of the United States, their prin- 

 cipal residence is in the inundated wilds of the peninsula of 



