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by striking against each other, produce a clash which is almost the only sound 

 that proceeds from these birds. 



To this genus belongs the celebrated White Stork, and the Black Stork. 



We next distinguish the ft ire Necked Storks ; and then the Pouched Storks, 

 so called from an appendage under the throat resembling a sausage. There 

 are two species ; one from Senegal, the other from India. 



MYCTERIA, Linnaeus. 



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. Their 

 peculiar character consists in a beak slightly curved upwards near the 

 extremity. 



SCOPUS, Brixson*. 



The Umbres are only distinguished from the storks by a compressed beak, 

 whose trenchant ridge is inflated near the base, and whose nostrils are con- 

 tinued by a groove, which runs parallel with the ridge to its end, the latter 

 being slightly hooked. Only one species is known, Scop, umbrctta, which is 

 the size of a crow, and of an umber colour. The occiput of the male is tufted. 

 Found throughout Africa. 



The genus HIANS, Lacep., is only separable from the Storks by a character 

 of but little consequence ; and that of DHOMAS, Payk., is very similar to it ; 

 but the under part of its compressed beak is perforated by oval nostrils, and 

 its edges join closely. In Hians they do not 



TANTALUS, Linnaeus. 



The Wood-Pelicans have the feet, nostrils, and beak of the stork; but the 

 back of the beak is rounded, its point curved down- 

 wards, and slightly emarginated on each side: a part 

 of their head, and sometimes of the neck, is destitute 

 of feathers. 



T. locufator, Lin. (The Wood Pelican of America.) Is the size of a 

 stork, but more slender ; white ; quills of the wings and tail black ; beak and 

 feet, as well as the naked skin of the head and neck, blackish. It inhabits 

 both Americas, arriving in each country about the rainy season ; and frequents 

 muddy waters, where it chiefly hunts for eels. 



PLATALKA, Linneeus. 



The Spoonbills approximate to the storks in the whole of their struc- 

 ture ; but their bill, whence they derive their name, 

 is long, flat, broad throughout, becoming widened 

 and flattened, particularly at the end, so as to form a 

 spatula-like disk ; two shallow grooves, originating at 

 its base, extend almost to the end, but without being 



Scopur, from :;, sentinel. 



