CICONIID^K — THE ST<jrvKS — TAN'J'ALUS. 



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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 pluilanx of the middle toe, the inner much shorter, not reaching 

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

 bare portion of the til lia longer tlian 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 compact abox'e, loose Ijelow, the feathers of the neck small, their webs somewhat decom- 

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

 concave beneath, the outer four with their inner webs deeply sinuated at or anterior to the nuddle 

 portion ; second, third, and fourth ([uills nearly equal, 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 hard, scurfy, and more or less corrugated skin. Youny, with the whole 

 head and neck, except the chin and I'orehead, feathered. 



Tantalus loculator. 



THE WOOD IBIS. 



JFood Pelican, Catesby, Carolina, pi. 81. 



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



1766, I. 241, no. 1. — WiLs. Am. Oru. VIII. 1814, 39, pi. 66, fig. 1. — NuTT. Slan. II. 1834, 



82. — Arn. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 128, pi. 216 ; Synop. 1839, 259 ; Birds Am. VI. 1843, 64, pi. 



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



— CouE-s, Key, 1872, 262 ; Cheek List, 1873, no. 444 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 648 ; Birds N. W. 1874 ; 



513. — RiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 500. 

 Tantalus i)lumicollis, Spix. Av. Bras. pi. 85 (young). 

 "Ibis naudasson ; I, nandapoa, Vieii.i.." ((iR.4Y & Box.\p.) 

 Le Curiaca, dc Cayenne, Bltf. PI. Enl. 1770-84, pi. 868 (adult). 

 Wood Ibis, Pexx. Arct. Zool. II. 1785, 458, no. 360. 

 Tantalus ichthyophayus, the Ganuel, Bartuam, Travels, 1791, 293. 



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