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FAMILY IBIDID^E. IBISES. 



GENUS GUARA REICHENBACH. 

 58. Guara alba (Linn.). WHITE IBIS. 



Rare summer visitor. Mr 4 Robert Ridgway informs me that he and Mr. Wil- 

 liam Brewster saw a considerable flock on the Wabash river near Mt. Carmel, 111., 

 in May, 1881. They were observed on both sides of the river. The fact that they 

 were seen in a flock at this time of the year would seem to indicate that they per- 

 haps were near their breeding ground. ( Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, October, 1878, p. 

 166 ; Ibid. Vol. V, p. 32.) 



SUBORDER CICONI^E. STORKS, ETC. 



FAMILY CICONIID^E. STORKS AND WOOD IBISES. 



SUBFAMILY TANTALIN^E. WOOD IBISES. 



Wood Ibis. 



GENUS TANTALUS LINNAEUS, 

 59. Tantalus loculator (Linn.). WOOD IBIS. 



* Perhaps regular summer visitor, or summer resident, in the Lower Wabash Val- 

 ley ; throughout the remainder of the southern two-thirds of the State rare sum- 

 mer visitor. The first account of the occurrence of these birds in the State is given 

 by Dr. Raymond (Proc. PhiJu. Acad. Nat, Science, 1856, p. 295) in which he says: 

 " The first day of August, 1855, a large flock of thee birds made their appearance 

 in this neighborhood. They remained along the river and the White Water canal 

 for about a month or six weeks. A son of one of my neighbors broke the wing of 

 one of them and caught it. After keeping it three or four weeks, feeding it upon 

 fish, he gave it to me. I kept it until near the first of November, when it fell a vic- 

 tim, as many another biped has done, to its appetite. Some mackerel had been 

 placed to soak upon a table in the back yard, one of which he stole and ate, and 

 upon the evening of the next day died in convulsions." Dr. Raymond also re- 



