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CICONIID^ — THE STORKS — TANTALUS. 



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the middle one about, or a little more than, half the length of the tarsus, the outer one reaching 

 to the middle of the subterminal phalanx of the middle toe, the inner much shorter, not reaching 

 the subterminal articulation of the middle toe ; hallux about equal to the inner toe and claw ; 

 Ijare portion of the tibia longer than the middle toe, the upper third, or more, without scales, and 



T. loculator. - , 



smooth ; web between inner and middle toes well developed^ but smaller than the outer web. 

 Plumage comi)act above, loose below, the feathers of the neck small, their webs somewhat decom- 

 jxjsed. Remiges well developed, the tertials reaching to the end of the primaries, the latter hard, 

 concave beneath, the outcn- i'our with their inner webs deejdy siiiuated at or anterior to the middle 

 portion ; second, third, and fourth quills nearly ecpial, or longest. Tail short (shorter than bill or 

 tarsus), even, of 12 broad, stiff feathers. Adult, with the whole head and upper half of the nape 

 bare, covered with a liard, scurfy, and more or less corrugated skin. Youny, with the whole 

 bead and neck, except the chin and forehead, feathered. 



Tantalus loculator. 



THE WOOD IBIS. 



Wood Pelican, Catesby, Carolinn, pi. 81. 



Tantalus loculator, Lixs. S. N. cd. 10, I. 1758, 140, no. 1 (ex Klein, 127 ; Catesby, I. 81) ; ed. 12, 



1766, I. 241, no. 1. — Wils. Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, 39, pi. 66, fig. 1. — Nittt. Man. II. 1834, 



82. — Ari>. Oin. Biog. III. 183.'), 128, pi. 216 ; Synop. 1839, 259 ; Birds Am. VI. 1843, 64, pi. 



361 (adult). — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 682. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 497. 



— Coues, Key, 1872, 262 ; Check List, 1873, no. 444 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 648 ; Birds N. W. 1874 ; 



513. -lliDow. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 500. 

 Tantalus plumicollis, Spix. Av. Bras. ])1. 85 (young). 

 "Ibis nandMsswi ; I. nandnpoa, Vieiu,." (Gray & BoNAP.) 

 Le Cimaca, de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Eiil. 1770-84, pi. 868 (adult). 

 Wood Ibis, Penn. Arct. Zool. 11. 1785, 458, no. 360. 

 Tantalus ichthyophagus, the Gannet, Bartuam, Travels, 1791, 293. 



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