WOOD IBIS. 
WOOD STORK. 
Tantalus loculator. 
Char. General color white ; tail and part of wings black, with metal- 
lic reflections ; head and upper half of neck bare, the skin hard, rough, 
and of a dusky color. Length about 40 inches. 
Nest. In a colony situated amid a dense cypress-swamp, placed on an 
upper branch of a tall tree; a loosely arranged structure of twigs, lined 
with moss, — the size increasing by yearly additions. 
Eggs. 2-3 ; white, spotted with brown ; the surface rough ; 2.75 X 1.75. 
'I'his is another tribe of singular wading birds, which emi- 
grate in the summer to a certain distance on either side of 
the equator ; being found occasionally as far north as Virginia, 
and as far south, in the other hemisphere, as the savannahs of 
