352 CLASS AVES. 



bill and feet are black. It lives in South America, on 

 the borders of ponds and marshes, where it pursues 

 reptiles and fishes. It is called at Cayenne, Touyou- 

 you, Aiaiai in Paraguay, Collier Rouges &c. ; and Bar- 

 rere has confounded it with the American Ostrich, 

 which has caused the latter bird to receive the name 

 Touyouyou, or Touyou, fromBrisson and BufFon. The 

 name Mycteria was given by Linnaeus, from i^^^-^^i^ 

 nose, or proboscis, on account of the large bill.* 

 Add, 



Senegal Jahiru. Mycteria Senegalensis. Lath. Vieill. 

 Gal. 255, from which C. Ephippirhynca, of Rup- 

 pell, Av. 3, does not seem to differ. 



Two small pendant wattles at base of bill; head, neck, 

 and scapulars, black ; the last with whitish bases ; the 

 remainder of the bird, white. Senegal.-f* 



The Umbres. Scopus, Briss. 



Are not distinguished from the storks, but by a com- 

 pressed bill, the trenchant ridge of which swells out 

 towards the base, and the nostrils are prolonged in a 

 furrow, which runs parallel to the ridge as far as the 

 point, which is a little crooked. 

 There is but one species known, 



" Ciconia Guianensis. Brisson — the Ciconia Mycteria. Illiger. 



t See head and bill, Lath. Lin. Trans, v. t. 5, and Birds PI. Col. Ixiv.; 

 when young, ash, white- waved with black; chest, belly, and base of 

 tail, white. 



