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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



surrounding the hare skin of tlie face arc ivliitc, instead of blackish as in 



the preceding species; iris red. 



The home of this species is tropical and warm temperate America, 



and in the United States extends from Texas and southern California to 



Wyoming and Washington. It has 

 been found in Florida, but is ex- 

 tremely rare or purely accidental 

 in the other eastern states. Its 

 place in New York ornithology 

 rests on a single specimen in the 

 New York State Museum [No. 205] 

 which was taken on Grand Island, 

 Niagara river, August 1844 [see 

 N. Y. State Mus. 3d An. Rep't, 

 p. 22; also, Auk, 3: 253-54]. 



Family CICOMIIDAE 



Storks 



Bill very stout at base and 

 broad as forehead, long, decurved 

 at the tip in our species, not 

 grooved; nasal fossae wanting; 

 tarsi mostly reticulate ; claws on a 

 horny "shoe," the middle one not 

 pectinate; nasals holorhinal; semi- 

 tendinosus niuscle and its acces- 

 sory present ; accessory femorocaudal absent ; two coeca ; no powder-down. 



There are 18 species or more of the Stork family found in the warmer 



regions of the globe. The Wood ibis, so miscalled, is the only New York 



species. 



Mycteria americana Linnaeus 



Wood Ibis 



Mycteria americana Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:140 

 T a n t alu s lo cul a t o r A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 188 



myctc'ria, Gr. fnvKTrjpL^u), to turn up the nose 



Description. Adult: White, the wing quills, primary coverts and tail 

 glossy black; bald head "Hvid bluish and yehowish:" biU dingy yellowish; 



White-faced glossy ibis. PleKadis Huarauna (Lin- 

 naeus) . New York specimen in State .Museum. J nat. size 



