WOOD IBIS. 



wood stork. 



Tantalus loculator. 



Char. General color white ; tail and part of wings black, with metal- 

 lic reflections ; head and upper half of neck bare, the skin hard, rough, 

 and of a dusky color. Length about 40 inches. 



Nt'st. In a colony situated amid a dense cypress-swamp, jijaced on an 

 upi^er branch of a tall tree; a loosely arranged structure of twigs, lined 

 with moss, — the size increasing by yearly additions. 



E_i^gs. 2-3 ; white, spotted with brown ; the surface rough ; 2.75 X 1.75. 



This is another tribe of singular wading birds, which emi- 

 grate in the summer to a certain distance on either side of 

 the equator ; being found occasionally as far north as Virginia, 

 and as far south, in the other hemisphere, as the savannahs of 



