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the middle one about, or a little more than, half the length of the tarsus, the outer one reaching 
to the middle of the subterminal phalanx of the middle toe, the inner much shorter, not reaching 
the subterminal articulation of the middle toe ; hallux about equal to the inner toe and claw ; 
bare portion of the tibia longer than the middle toe, the upper third, or more, without scales, and 
T. loculator. 
smooth ; web between inner and middle toes well developed, but smaller than the outer web. 
Plumage compact above, loose below, the feathers of the neck small, their webs somewhat decom- 
posed. Remiges well developed, the tertials reaching to the end of the primaries, the latter hard, 
concave beneath, the outer four with their inner webs deeply sinuated at or anterior to the middle 
portion ; second, third, and fourth quills nearly equal, or longest. Tail short (shorter than bill or 
tarsus), even, of 12 broad, stiff feathers. Adult, with the whole head and upper half of the nape 
bare, covered with a hard, scurfy, and more or less corrugated skin. Youny, with the whole 
head and neck, except the chin and forehead, feathered. 
Tantalus loculator. 
THE WOOD IBIS. 
JFoocl Pelican, Catesby, Carolina, pi. 81. 
Tantalus loculator, Linn. S. N. cd. 10, 1. 1758, 140, no. 1 (ex Klein, 127 ; Catesby, I. 81) ; ed. 12, 
1766, I. 241, no. 1. — Wils. Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, 39, pi. 66, fig. 1. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 
82. — Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 128, pi. 216 ; Synop. 1839, 259 ; Birds Am. VI. 1843, 64, pi. 
361 (adult). — Cass, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1858, 682. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 497. 
— Coues, Key, 1872, 262 ; Check List, 1873, no. 444 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 648 ; Birds N. W. 1874 ; 
513. — Eidgw. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 500. 
Tantalus plumicollis, Spix. Ay. Bras. pi. 85 (young). 
“Ibis nandasson ; I. nandapoa, Yieill.” (Gray & Bonap.) 
Le Curiaca, da Cayenne, Buff. Pi. Enl. 1770-84, pi. 868 (adult). 
1 Food Ibis, Penn. Arct. Zool. II. 1785, 458, no. 360. 
Tantalus ichthyophagus, the Gannet, Bartram, Travels, 1791, 293. 
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