no WOOD IBISES. 



jr. STORIiS. Oicoiiiao. 



Large, stout birds with necks, legs and bills quite long; 

 head and a portion of neck often destitute of feathers. Hind 

 toe not much elevated. Young, helpless. 



A. WOOD IBISES. Tantalidae. 



Bill, longer than head, stout at base, strongly curved at 

 tip; head in adults destitute of feathers and covered with 

 scale-like projections of the skin. Under tail coverts pro- 

 jecting beyond tail. Colors, mostly white with primaries and 

 tail black. 



a. Wood Ibises. Tantalus. 

 Characters as above, fig. 127. 



1. WOOD IBIS, T. i.ocvLATOiJ. 43.00; bill, 8.00; 

 white, primaries and tail glossy, greenish-black with a bronze 

 iridescence; under wing coverts, pinkish in breeding plu- 

 mage; bill, and naked Fig. 127. 

 skin of head, blackish, 

 neck, covered with whit- 

 ish scales, legs and tarsus, 

 black, feet yellow; iris, 

 brown, fig. 127. Young, 

 head and neck mostly 

 covered with grayish- 

 brown feathers, and body 

 plumage dull. Nestlings, #M\ 

 purewhite. Southern ||m| 

 U. S. north to the Ohio Ml 

 Valley, south to the Ar- 

 gentine Republic ; has OC- ^ -- __::-^_-~ ^^ 7:.^^^^r^^ ^_ 



curred casually in Pa. ^^^^^^^^:ffT^^:^^^i^^^^=^^^^^^^J 

 and N. Y. cries harsh ""^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^^^S^^ 

 and discordant. Nests, "^ " ""^ < -- — — 

 composed of sticks and J, A, a, 1. 1-10. 



placed in trees in swamps. Eggs, 1 or 2, chalky-white, 

 sometimes faintly spotted with i^eddish, they are deposited 

 in April in Fla., a little later further north. During the 



