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TANTALIN^. TANTALUS. 
with the hill greyish-yellow, the feet leaden-coloured, the plumage 
dull brown all over, excepting the rump, which is whitish, and the 
tail, which is tinged with grey. Young after first moult with the bill 
pale yellow, the feet pale blue ; the plumage dull olivaceous brown, 
the quills dark, the tail lighter, the hind part of the back white, as 
are the breast and abdomen. 
Adult, 244, 40. 
Constant resident in South Florida, where it is abundant. Breeds 
along the coast to Texas, westward, and occasionally as far as New 
Jersey eastward, inland as far up the Mississippi as Natchez and Red 
River. Returns to the Floridas in autumn. 
White Ibis, Tantalus albus, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii, p. 43. 
Ibis alba, Bonap. Syn. p. 312. 
White Ibis, Ndtt. Man. v. ii. p. 86. 
White Ibis, Ibis alba, Aon. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 173 5 v. v. p. 593. 
GENUS II. TANTALUS, Linn. TANTALUS. 
Bill long, stout, at the base as wide as the face, deeper 
than broad, compressed, tapering towards the end, which is 
decurved ; upper mandible with the ridge rather broad and 
flattened at the base, narrowed at the middle, convex to- 
wards the end, the sides sloping at the base, convex toward 
the end, the edges inflected and sharp, the tip declinate, 
rounded, with a notch on each side ; nostrils basal, close to 
the ridge, direct, oblong ; lower mandible with the angle 
rather wide, with a bare dilatable membrane, the edges 
erect and sharp, the tip blunted. Head of ordinary size, 
and with part of the hind neck bare and scurfy. Feet very 
long, like those of the Herons ; tibia and tarsus reticulate ; 
hind toe rather large, third longest ; claws small, arched, 
that of the third toe not serrate. Wings long, ample, with 
the third quill longest. Tail of twelve broad rounded 
feathers. 
363. 1. Tantalus Loculator, Linn. Wood Ibis. 
Plate CCXVI. Male. 
Head all round, and hind neck half-way down, destitute of feathers, 
the skin wrinkled and covered with irregular scurfy scales ; bill dusky 
