. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . RoseateSpoonbills nest is found on trees and in tlie reeds. I lia\( neverfound the nest myself. This l»ird is distiiluited all along Ihecoast, and is of rather a ^iiy nature, in fact one of tlie >liy(sl of 154 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. all the birds in Guiana. The Macusis call it Warara and the Warraus Ajaja. Mr. Barrington Brown (C^anoe and Camp Life, p. 205) writesfrom the sand-beaches of the Takutu :—In the inlets off the sidesof the river, were flocks of beautiful Roseate S[)Oonbills (I^lataleaa
. The birds of British Guiana : based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell ... . RoseateSpoonbills nest is found on trees and in tlie reeds. I lia\( neverfound the nest myself. This l»ird is distiiluited all along Ihecoast, and is of rather a ^iiy nature, in fact one of tlie >liy(sl of 154 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. all the birds in Guiana. The Macusis call it Warara and the Warraus Ajaja. Mr. Barrington Brown (C^anoe and Camp Life, p. 205) writesfrom the sand-beaches of the Takutu :—In the inlets off the sidesof the river, were flocks of beautiful Roseate S[)Oonbills (I^lataleaajaja). Family CICONIID^. The members that compose this family are large birds with longbills, long legs, and small feet, in proportion to the size of thebirds. Their distribution is in Asia, Africa, Australia, andAmerica. Genus MYCTERIA Lnm. Mijclrria Linne, Sjst. Nat. lOtli cd. i. p. 140, 1758. Tjjie M, auiericanaLinn. This genus is chiefly distinguished l)y the shape of the bill,which is decurved, somewhat rounded, blunt at the tip, and smoothin texture : the head and neck are bar^.. Fig. -43. —To ilkistrate tlio shape of the bill. 97. Mycteria americana. Wood Ibis. Mycteria americana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 140, 1758 (Brazil) ; Bra-bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 48, no. 458, 1912. Tantalus loculator Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 756, 1848;Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 104, 1876 (Eupununi River) ;Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 171; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 321,1898 ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 353, 381, 1910(Abary River). iS^igger-heads^ {Qiielch), Sowewies or Negrocopes {Brown)- MYCTERIA. 155 Adult male. Entire back, scapulars, long innermost secondariespure white like the nnder wing-coverts, axillaries, breast, abdomen,and under tail-coverts ; bastaid-wing, primary-coverts, and quillsblack ; tail greenish-black tinged with purjde. Head and upperl)art of neck bare and of a livid bluish colour, tinged Avithyellowish on the forehead ; bill yellow
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