Wood-Ibises are similar in habits, but they are more gregarious; and build smaller nests of twigs lined with moss, laying as many as eight white eggs, rarely streaked with pale brown. _Tantalus loculator_, the "Wood-Ibis" of the warmer parts of America, is white, with metallic greenish-black remiges and rectrices, the bare head and upper neck being covered with dusky corrugated skin, and the crown with a smooth plate. The beak and feet are lead-coloured, the under wing-coverts pinkish. _T._ (_Pseudotantalus_) _ibis_ of the Ethiopian Region has only the front of the head naked, but is rosy towards the upper and under wing-coverts, the smooth face and feet being red and the bill yellow. _T. leucocephalus_ of the Indian and Indo-Chinese countries differs in its yellow face, while the Indo-Malay _T. cinereus_ has it red and black. _Anastomus oscitans_, the "Open-bill," another Indian and Indo-Chinese species, is white, with black scapulars, remiges, and rectrices, yellow bill and feet; the Ethiopian _A. lamelligerus_ is metallic black varied by a little rufous, the shafts of the feathers of the fore-neck and lower parts in adults expanding into flat shining, horn-like plates at the tip. _Leptoptilus dubius_, the "Adjutant" of the Indian Region, is greenish-black above and white below, the fleshy-red head and neck being naked with a few hairs, and a white ruff surmounting the shoulders, while a huge ruddy pouch, communicating with the nasal cavity, hangs below the throat. The {98}bill is greenish and the feet greyish, the former being yellowish and the latter black in the two following species. The Ethiopian _L. crumenifer_ has the bare portions spotted with black; _L. javanicus_ of Manchuria and the Indian Region has some white on the wing-coverts, yellow naked parts with a horny greenish crown, a line of hair on the nape, and a tuft on the fore-neck. [Illustration: FIG. 29.–White Stork. _Ciconia alba._ × ⅒.]