$34 Dr. Snaw's Defcription of a new Species of Myéteria. 
appearance of the membranaceous or femitranfparent part on each 
fide of the upper mandible. "The colours alfo both of the bill and 
legs are widely different from thofe of the New Holland Jabiru ; but 
it agrees with that fpecies in having the head and neck covered with 
| feathers. Of the New Holland fpecies a beautiful fpecimen may be 
feen in the Leverian Mufeum, which, however, feems not to have - 
quite attained to its full fize, fince it falls fhort of the meafurements 
ipei. in- fome — executed — Holland fiom p recent 
bird: i o DS 
In eret. to udate as miach as pottible ied curious ene 1 Mal 
conclude with giving the fpecific characters of all the three birds 
above mentioned. It is to be obferved, that in the Syftema Nature 
no fpecific charaéter is given of the MyZeria Americana or Common 
Jabiru; that being then the only fpecies known to exift. It is now 
aoa to lun. one for that poicci; 3 viz. 
v ks ome m a . 
Ge WE MycrERIA ee ate. ES 
cM. alba, capite colloque nudis nigris, zona colli inferioris rubra, | 
-© .occipite guru: roftro pedibufque nigris, 
> American Jabiru.. 
. White Jabiru, with the head and neck naked and black; a red 
te "odi round the lower part of the neck ; the occiput | whi hitifh 
ex ti e bill and legs black. 
2. MYĆTERIA Apih 
; M. be capa colloque viridi-nigris ; tectricibus, pennis jell 
5 ribus Ren nigris; roftro nigro, pedibus rubris. , 
New Holland Jabiru. 
T White Jabiru, with the head and neck green-black ; ds coverts, 
eagle, and tail black ; the bill black, the legs red. ; 
a. de TERIA 
