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regions of America, Africa, and Asia. Of the five species of Tantalince admitted by authors, we 
have seen, in addition to Tantalus loculator , only the T. ibis, Linn., from Northern and Eastern 
Africa. This is so different in form and other characters as to seem entitled to separate generic 
rank ; and finding no name already established or available, we have proposed that given above . 1 
The Indian Wood Ibis ( T. leucocephalus, Gm.) and all the other Old World species 2 agree closely in 
structure with the African species (T. ibis). 
Genus MYCTERIA, Linnaeus. 
Mycteria, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 140 ; ed. 12, 1. 1766, 232 (type, M. americana, Gmel. ex Linn.). 
Gen. Char. Very large, Stork-like birds, with enormous, somewhat conical and rather recurved 
beaks, and with head and neck bare of leathers. Bill enormously large, longer than the very long 
M. Americana. 
1 Cf. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. V. p. 550. 
2 T. lacteus, Temm., of Java and Sumatra, and T. longuimembris, Swinh., of South China (Amoy). 
