CICONIID^—ClCONIINuE: STORKS. 
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Just as we saw the American Spoonbill distinguished from Platalea of the Old World, so 
does the American Wood Ibis diflfer from Old World Tantalus to a marked degree in the 
structure of the M'indpipe; but this time it is our bird which has that organ simple, it being 
remarkably complicated in the other. In Tantalus ibis, typical of the genus, the trachea is 
several times folded and doubled upon itself in the thorax. In Tantalus loculator, the trachea 
is short, straight, and simple in its lower part, with numerous reduced and modified rings, and 
flattened from side to side, producing a ridge in front. It has been made type of a genus 
Tantalides, but that name being preoccupied, a new one seems to be required, 
255. TAN'TALOPS. (Gr. TdvraXos, Lat. Tantalus, a mythical character; coyjr, ops, aspect.) 
American Wood Stork or Wood ''Ibis.'' Character as above. In addition: Whole head 
and part of the neck bare, rugous and scaly in the adult. Nasal fosssd not continued beyond the 
nostrils. Anterior toes webbed at base. Tibiae bare for half their length. Claws com-, 
pressed, but obtuse. Head feathered in the young. Sexes alike. Color white and black. 
648. T. locula'tor. (Lat. locus, a place ; loculus, a little place, but qu. loculator in its application 
to this bird? Fig. 455.) American Wood Stork. Wood Ibis. Colorado Turkey. 
Adult ^ 9 '• Plumage white, the wing-quills, primary coverts, alula, and tail, glossy black. 
The bald head livid bluish and yellowish. Bill dingy yellowish. Legs blue, becoming blackish 
on the toes, the webs tinged with yellow. Iris dark brown. Length nearly 4 feet ; extent 
5.50 feet; wing 1.50; tail 0.50; bill 9 inches, 2 or more deep at base: tibiae bare 6.00; 
tarsus 8.00 ; middle toe and claw 4.75. Weight 10 or 12 lbs. 9 smaller than ^. Young: 
Head downy-feathered; the plumage dark gray, with blackish wings and tail; plumage 
whitening and head becoming bald after the first month. S(juth Atlantic and Gulf States, 
and across in corresponding latitudes to the Colorado River, where abundant. N. to the 
Carolinas; up the Mississippi to the Ohio ; casually straying to Penn., N.Y., and even New 
England (1).^ W. I., Mex., C. and S. Am. Resident in the S. States; abundant; gregarious; 
frequents the most thickly wooded swamps and bayous, fairly swarming in its heronries ; flight 
performed with alternate flapping and sailing; at times mounts high in air and performs the 
most beautiful evolutions, with motionless wings, like a turkey buzzard. Eggs 2-3, elliptical 
in contour, shell rough with flaky substance ; color M^hite ; size 2.75 X 1.75. 
59. Subfamily CICONIIN/E: True Storks. 
Bill as above described, but end not decurved (straight or ?'ecurved). Nostrils nearly 
lateral. Toes short, the middle less than half the tarsus. Lateral toes nearly equal. Hind 
toe not insistent. Claws short, broad, obtuse, flattened like nails. Several Old World and 
two American genera, Dissoura (D. maguari) and Mycteria. 
256. MYCTE'RIA. (Or. fxvKT-fjp, mukter, the snout ; ^vKTr]pi^(o, inukterizo, I turn up the nose.) 
Jabirus. BiU immensely large, recurved. Whole head and neck bare, except a hairy patch 
on the occiput. Tail not peculiar. (In Dissoura, bill moderate, straight, head mostly feathered, 
tail forked, and its under coverts stifi'ened and lengthened, resembling rectrices.) 
654. M. america^na. American Jabiru. Adult : Plumage entirely white. Bill, legs, and feet, 
and bare skin of head and neck, black, the neck with a broad bright red collar round the lower 
portion. Immature (transition plumage) : Rump, upper tail-coverts and tail, white ; rest of 
upper parts, including feathered portion of lower neck, soft light brownish-gray, irregularly 
mixed, except on lower neck, with white feathers of the adult livery; lower parts entirely 
white. Bill, etc., colored as in the adult. Wing 24.50-26.00 ; tail 9.50 ; culmen 9.75-12.30 ; 
depth of bill through base about 2.50; tarsus 11.25-11.50; middle toe 4.20-4.50. Tropical 
America, N. to Texas. 
^ Mr. Allen informs me that the alleged New England case is doubtless erroneous (Bull. Nuttall Club, viii, 
July, 1883, p. 187). 
