/^ Upper throat entirely bare, like the 

 clun ; lores, sides of face, space 

 behind and above the eye and 

 forehead bare 18. Eudocimus, p. 39. 



1. IBIS. „ 



Type. 



Ibis, Cuvier, Hec/ne An. i. p. 48S (1817) I. sethiopiea. 



Threskiornis, Gray, List Gen. B., A pp. p. 13 (1842) . . I. aethiopica. 



Range. Africa generally and Madagascar ; India, China, and 

 Japan, as well as the Indo-Malayan Subregion to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and neck bare. (Adult males and females.) 

 a'. No elongated plumes on fore-neck. 



a". All the quills broadly tipped with green- 

 ish black ; ornamental plumes of second- 

 aries with purplish gloss ; iris brown . . eethiopica, p. 4. 

 h". All the quills white; inner secondaries 



ashy ; iris white bernieri, p. 7. 



h' . With elongated plumes on the fore-neck. 

 c" . No black tips to primaries ; ornamental 

 secondaries pearly grey : inner secondaries 



not mottled or barred melanocephala , p. 7. 



d'. Primaries with a broad tip of blue-black ; 

 ornamental secondaries black ; inner 

 secondaries barred and mottled with 



purplish black molucca, p. 9. 



h. Head and neck feathered and streaked with 

 black and white. (Young of all species.) 



1. Ibis SBtMopica. 



Abou Hannes, Bruce, Trav. Abyss, v., App. p. 172, pi. 35 (1790). 



Tantalus sethiopicus, Lath. hid. Orn. ii. p. 706 (1790). 



Numenius ibis, Cuvier, Ann. du Mus. iv. p. 116. pis. 52-54 (1804) 

 Savign. Hist. Nat. de VIbis, p. 15, pis. 1-3 (1805). 



Ibis religiosa, Cuvier, Eeqne Anim. i. p. 483 (1817) ; Vieill. N. Did 

 d'Hist. Nat. xvi. p. 9 (1817) ; Temm. Man. <rOrn.n. p. 599 (1820 

 note) ; Audonin, Expl. Somm. Planches Hist, de TEqypte, p. 301 

 pi. 7. fig. 1 (1825) ; Waghr, Syst. Av., Ibis, sp. 2, p. '368 (1827) 

 Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 25 (1827) ; Cuv. Reqne Anim. i. p. 519 

 (1829) ; Less. Traite, p. 568 (1831) ; Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1231 

 lliipp. Neue Wirb., Vog. p. 49 (1835-40) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv, 

 p. 391 (1840) ; ? Nordm. in Detnid. Toy. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 258 

 (1840) ; Schl. Mus. Bays-Bas, Ibis, p. 12 (1863: Senaar ; Nubia 

 Gold Coast); Adams, Ibis, 1864, p. 31; Kirk, t. c. p. 33-1 

 (Zambesi); Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 107 (1864: Blue Nile) 

 DegL et Gerhe, Orn. Eur. ii. p. 326 (1867) ; Loche, E.vpl. Sci 

 Alger., Ois. ii p. 152 (1867); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 614 

 (Cameroons) ; Boche, Bull. Soc. Philom. 1889, pp. 119, 120. 



Ibis aethiopica, Biipp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 122 (1845); Vierth. Naum. 

 1853, p. 22, 1857, p. 107 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 61 (1856) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 347 (Isl. of Dahalak ; Abyssinian coast) ; Gurney, 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 219 (Natal) ; id. Ibis, 1868, p. 259; Fritsch, Tog. 



