EUXENURA. 157 



Ciconia maguari Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Gruian. iii. p. 752, ISiS ; Quelch, 

 Timelii-i (2) v. p. 107, 1891. 



"Heri'^ (Quelch). 



Adult. General colour white except the scapulars, tail, greater 

 upper wing-coverts^ bastard-wing-, primarj-coverts, and quills, 

 which are black with a greenish gloss. "Leiis and feet blood- 

 red ; bill lead-grey." 



Total length 1015 mm., culmen 200, wing 510, tail 180, tarsus 

 240. 



The bird described has no exact locality, only that it was 

 obtained in the Colony. 



Adult male and female similar. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Waini River (Beehe). 



Extraliuiital Range. Brazil, Argentina, Cliile. 



Habits. Schoinburgk remarks (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 752) that 

 this bird is found in company with Mycteria americana ( = Jahiru 

 myderia, p. 158) in large flocks on the Savanna-bogs. It is very 

 shy and difficult to obtain. Its nidification is unknown. The 

 "Macusis'^ and " Arekunas'^ call it Walriang. 



Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 155, 156) writes: — 

 "About four o^clock we were surprised to see a large black and 

 white bird with long grey l)eak and red legs fly up from a mud-flat 

 ahead and swing outwards and around us. The glasses showed a 

 Maguari Stork in full breeding-colour ; even the red caruncles 

 around the eye and the long, iilmy neck-feathers being visible. 

 We had never expected to see the bird away from the pampas of 

 tlie interior, and the sight of the s[)len(liil Stork was most exciting. 

 It is almost as large as the Jabiiu, white with black wings, 

 scapulars, and tail, and is one of the most i)ietnres([ue of the 

 larger waders. 



" We have had a pair of the birds alive for some time and liave 

 observed a curious thing about the tail. The real tail-feathers are 

 forked, swall()w-lik(!, wliile the intervening space is filled up with 

 the lonir, stiff under tail-coverls. In flioht tlie whole are spread, 

 making a parti-coloured fan of some eigliteen feathers instead of 

 the usual six pairs." 



Mr. J. J. Quelch (Timehri (2) v. p. l07) observed this speci(>s, 

 tlie " Heri," at Georgetown. 



