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CICONIID^. 



Tantalus longirostris, Brelwi, Naumannia, 1855, p. 290 ; id. Vogelf. 



p. 299 (1855). 

 Pseudotantalus ibis, Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. t. p. 551 (1883) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 735 (1884) ; id. Ibis, 1892, 



p. 542 (Turquei River, Siik). 



Adult. General colour above white with a rosy tinge, the wing- 

 coverts and inner secondaries not only tinged with rose-colour but 

 having a sub-terminal bar of crimson-lake, becoming almost blackish 

 on the latter feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers black, glossed with purplish bronze or metallic green 

 on the primaries ; head and neck all round white, as well as the 

 under surface of the body, the under tail-coverts tinged with pink ; 

 axillaries white with a pinkish tinge ; under wing-coverts white 

 with a strong blush of crimson, deepening to rich crimson before 

 the white tip, which is very conspicuous : " bare parts of face red, 

 with a narrow border of yellow ; bill golden yellow ; feet brick-red, 

 with the toes black ; iris clear brown" {A. GrancUdier). Total length 

 40 inches, culmen 9*8, wing 20, tail 7'3, tarsus 9, 



Young. Distinguished by its brown back and wings as well as by 

 the head and neck being brown all round : " bare part of face 

 yellow " {A. Grandklier). 



Hob. Africa and Madagascar. 



