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noxious reptiles. It prefers building its nest on towers, on the tops 

 of steeples, &c. ; and, after liaving once constructed it, returns to 

 the same spot every spring to build again, passing the winter in se- 

 veral countries of Africa. 



Ard. nigra, L. ; Enl. 399; and the young, Frisch, 197; Naum. 

 23, f. 32. (The Black Stork). Blackish, with purple reflections; 

 belly white. Haunts solitary marshes, and builds in forests*. 

 Among the foreign species we may distinguish, 



The Bare-necked Storks, 



Which have a thicker bill than the others, but one composed of a light 

 substance; and among them 



The Pouched Storks, Ard. duhia, Gm. — Ard. algala, Lat. 

 Which have an appendage under the middle of the throat, resembling 

 a thick sausage, and from under whose wings are procured the feathers 

 forming those light plumes called by the French, Marabous. They are 

 the largest birds of the genus ; their belly is v/hite, and their mantle a 

 bronze-black. There are two species, 



Cic. marabou, Tem., Col. 300, from Senegal, with a uniform 

 mantle, and Cic. argala, Tem., Col. 301, from India, whose wing- 

 coverts are edged with white. By means of their broad bill, they 

 are enabled to capture birds on the wingf . 



MycteriaJ, Lin. 



The Jabirus, separated from Ardea by Linnaeus, are closely allied to 

 the Storks, and much more so than the latter are to the true Herons; 

 the moderate opening of their bill, the nostrils, the reticulated envelope 

 of the tarsi, and the extent of the membranes between the toes are the 

 same as in the Storks ; their mode of life is also similar. Their peculiar 

 character consists in a bill slightly curved upwards near the extremity. 



Myct. americana, L.§; Enl. 817, (The American Jabiru), is 

 the most known species. It is very large; white; head and neck 

 naked, and invested with a black skin, the lower part of which is 

 red; a few white feathers on the occiput only; bill and feet black. 

 Found along the borders of ponds and marshes in South America, 

 where it preys upon reptiles and fish^. 



* To this genus also belong the Maguari, or American Stork, {A. maguari) Vieill. 

 Galer. 254, and Spix, LXXXIX, under the wrong name of Ciconia jubura, which, 

 with the exception of its ash-coloured bill, differs but little from our White Stork; — 

 the little C. noire de Nubie {Cic. Ahdimii, Lichtenst.) Ruppel. 8; — the C. violelie (C. 

 leucocephala, Gm.) Enl. 906. 



t Add the Cigogne chevelue (C. capillata, T.), Col. 312. 



\ Mycteria, a name derived by Linnfeus from viukter, a Greek word, signifying 

 nose, proboscis, on account of its large bill. 



§ Tout/oui/ou in Cayenne; Aidiai in Paraguay; Collier rotige, &c. Barrere has con- 

 founded it with the American Ostrich, which has caused the name of Touyuuyou, or 

 Toin/oii, to be transferred to that bird by Brisson and by Buffbn. 



% Add, Mi/c. senegatensis, Lath., Vaill. Gal. 255, from which the Ciconia ephippir- 

 hyncl/rL, Rupp. Av. 3, only differs in being drawn from the recent specimen, and 

 showing two tufts or bobs at the base of the bill. 



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