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noxious reptiles. It prefers building its nest on towers, on the tops 
of-steeples, &c.; and, after having once constructed it, returns to 
the same spot every spring to build again, passing the winter in se- 
veral countries of Africa. 
Ard. nigra, .; 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. dubia, 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 white, 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 wingt. 
Mycteriat, Lin. 
The Jabirus, separated from Ardea by Linnzus, 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 biack skin, the lower part of which is 
red; afew 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 J]. 
* To this genus also belongs the Magwari, or American Stork, (4. maguari) Vieill. 
Galer. 254, and Spix, LAX XIX, 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. Abdimii, Lichtenst.) Ruppel. 8;—the C. viole(te (C. 
leucocephala, Gm.) Enl. 906. 
+ Add the Cigogne chevelue (C. capiltata, T.), Col. 312. 
{ Mycteria, a name derived by Linnezus from mukter, a Greek word, signifying 
nose, proboscis, on account of its large bill. 
§ Touyouyou in Cayenne; Azaiai in Paraguay; Collier rouge, &e. Barrere has con 
founded it with the American Ostrich, which has caused the name of Tuuyvuyou, or 
Zouyou, to be transferred to that bird by Brisson and by Buffon. 
§| Add, Myc. senegalensis, Lath., Vaill. Gal. 255, from which the Ciconia ephippir- 
Jryncha, 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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