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Definition of Mycteria americana
1. Noun. An American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics.
Generic synonyms: Stork
Group relationships: Genus Mycteria, Mycteria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycteria Americana
Literary usage of Mycteria americana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"mycteria americana LINN. SN ed. 10, I. 1758, 140. [B—, C 448 bis, R 499, C 654.]
GEOG. DIST.— Tropical America, north casually to southern Texas. ..."
2. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"... mycteria americana, Linn.), about four feet tall, with a bare jet-black head
capping its purely white plume. It haunts the banks and sand-bars, ..."
3. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"... three species range throughout tropical America up to the Southern United States.
324. mycteria americana, Linn. ... mycteria americana, Baird, Brera., ..."
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