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Young. — Head and neck feathered, and streaked with black and 

 white. 



Hab. : 1,2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



Genus — CARPHIBIS — Head and throat bare. Hind-neck feathered to 

 nape. Long stiff yellow shafts on the fore-neck. 



703. C. spillicollis, Jameson (Geronticusspinicollis), Straw-necked Ibis. 



General colour above black, glossed with steel green on upper 

 back and mantle, and purplish on scapulars and wings ; the long 

 upper tail coverts and tad feathers white ; wing coverts and quills 

 black, barred with bronze externally ; centre of neck white, with 

 straw-coloured plumes on each side ; breast and abdomen pure white. 



Young. — Head and neck feathered ; back sooty-black ; under 

 surface white. 



Total length, male 29 in., female 27 in. 

 Hab.: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



Genus — PLEGADIS. — Throat feathered as far as the interramal space ; 

 chin only bare ; lores bare ; cheeks partly bare. 



704. P, falciliellus* Linn. (Ibis falcinellus), Glossy Ibis. 



Summer Plumage — Head, neck, mantle, scapulars, and under 

 turface deep rufous. 



Winter Plumage. — Head and neck streaked with black and 

 whitish ; no chestnut as well on mantle and scapulars. 



Young. — Similar to winter plumage. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. 



FAMILY— PLATALEID^. 



Bill flattened, narrow in the middle, and widening out into a spoon-shaped 



end. 



Genus — PLATALEA. — Head partly bare, auricular orifice covered with 

 plumes. Nostrils elongated and in a shallow depression. 



705. P. regia, Gdd. (P. melanorhyncha), Black-billed Spoonbill (Royal 



Spoonbill). 



Whole of plumage white ; crest on crown ; a tinge of sandy-buff 

 on fore-neck ; bill, forehead to behind the line of the eye, fore part of 

 cheeks, and upper throat black ; yellow spot above the eye. 

 Young. — No crest ; white. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, S. 

 Genus — PLATIBIS. — Nostrils elongate, and situated in a deep depression, 

 with lateral ridges. Inner secondaries with decomposed plumes, as 

 in an Ibis. 

 70o. P. flavipes, Gld. (Platalea flavipes, Gld. ), Yellow-billed Spoonbill. 

 General colour white ; dense tuft of fore-neck feathers straw- 

 colour ; bill, forehead, upper throat, and region in front of and 

 behind the eye yellow ; the yellow of face divided from plumage by 

 narrow black line. 



Young. — No ornamental plumes on fore-neck. 

 Hab. : 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. 



ORDBR-HBaOI5IONES. 



Hallux free, not united to the other toes by a web ; nasals holorhinal ; 

 palate desmognathous. 



FAMILY— ARDEID^. 



Hind toe on the same plane as the other toes. Bill rounded or ridged ; bill 

 notched, with no dertral hook at the end. Outer toe with a broad 

 basal web, obsolete at base of inner toe ; middle claw pectinated. 

 Loral space bare ; powder down patches present. 



