WOOD TANTALUS. 
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the beak, fore part of the head and cheeks are yellow : 
the legs are pale flesh-colour : the tail is concealed 
by its coverts, which are very long. The other sex 
is said to differ in having a brown bar across the 
breast, and the wing-coverts being shaded with brown. 
This species inhabits India and the island of Ceylon. 
The pink feathers of the rump, which are used as orna- 
ments, are said to lose their colour during the rainy 
season. 
WOOD TANTALUS, 
"f- (Tantalus loculator.) 
Ta. albus, remigibus rectricibusque 7iigris ; rostro pedibusque ni- 
gricantibus ; facie ccsrulescente. 
White Tantalus^ with the quills and tail-feathers black, the beak 
and feet dusky, the face blue. 
Tantalus loculator. hinn. Syst. Nat. i. 240. GmeL Syst. Nat' 
I 647. Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 702. 
Le Tantale d'Amerique. Cuv. Reg. Anim. i. 480. 
Numenius Americanus major. Briss. Orn. 5. 335. 8. 
Couricaca. Buff. Ois. 7. 276. Buff. PL Enl. 868. 
Numenius niger. Klein, n. 109. 
Curicaca. Rail Syn. 103. 4. Will, 295. 54. 
Wood Pelican. Catesby Carol. \ .pl.S\. Penn. Arct. Zool. 360- 
Wood Ibis. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 104. 1. fVils. Amer. Orn. v. 8. 
p. 39. pL Ixvi./. 1. 
This bird is about three feet in length : its beak 
alone measuring full nine inches, and bending down- 
wards towards its tip ; it is yellowish brown : the 
irides are pale rufous : the skin on the fore part of 
the head and round the eyes blue ; that from the 
