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from their breeding grounds. It is possible they may have been, and 

 possibly still are, rare summer residents of the cypress swamps of that 

 region. (Bull. Nuttall Om. Club, Vol. Ill, 1878, p. 166.) 



Mr. F. M. Noe informs me that among the collection of the late 

 Dr. G. M. Levette there were a number of bird skulls, including some 

 of the Ibis. He has kindly sent me two, which he says were marked 

 "Indiana, 1874." These, he thought, might be the Scarlet Ibis. I 

 have submitted them to Mr. Eobert Ridgway, who says they are skulls 

 of the White Ibis. 



The White Ibis and the Scarlet Ibis are so nearly alike, except in 

 color, that from other characters they could not be distinguished. 



Suborder CICONI^. Storks, Etc. 



XIII. Family CICONIID^. Storks and Wood Ibises. 



Subfamily TANTALIN.E. Wood Ibises. 



a^. Head naked, neck partially so ; bill heavy, curved downward at end, tip blunt. 



Tantalus. 31 



;51. Genus TANTALUS Linn,eus. 



a^. Plumage white ; wings and tail mostly glossy black. 



T. loculator (Linn.). 62 



62. (188). Tantalus loculator (Linn.). 



Wood Ibis. 



Adult. — Head and neck bare; plumage white, except primaries, sec- 

 ondaries and tail, which are black, with purple, green and bronze re- 

 flections. Young. — Head feathered, except in front; it and neck cov- 

 ered with grayish-brown downy feathers; plumage like adult, some- 

 times grayish; the black parts less metallic. 



Length, 35.00-45.00; wing, 17.60-19.50; bill, 6.10-7.30; tarsus, 7.00- 

 8.50. 



Range. — America, from x\rgentine Eepublic and Equador north to 

 southern United States, South Carolina, southern Indiana, Colorado, 

 Utah and southern California, casually to New York and Wisconsin. 

 Breeds from Gulf States south. 



Nest, in trees, of sticks. Eggs, 2-3; chalk white, sometimes spotted 

 with- brown; 2.74 by 1.80. 



Summer visitor or summer resident, more or less irregular, in the 

 lower Wabash Valley; throughout the remainder of the southern two- 

 thirds of the State, rare summer visitor. All the records which have 



