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bill is greenish and the feet greyish, the former being yellowish 

 and the latter black in the two following species. The Ethiopian 

 L. crumenifer has the bare portions spotted with black ; L. javanicus 

 of Manchuria and the Indian Eegion has some white on the wing- 

 coverts, yellow naked parts with a horny greenish crown, a line of 

 hair on the nape, and a tuft on the fore-neck. 



Mycteria americana, the " Jabiru," ranging from Texas to 

 Argentina, is white, with black head, neck, bill, and feet ; the 



Fig. 29. — Wliite Stork. Ciconia alba, x ^. 



naked head having a hairy patch on the occiput, and the l)are 

 neck a red distensible basal baud. The Australian and Papuan 

 3f. (^Xenorhynchus) australis is l)lack with purple and green gloss, 

 except the back and lower surface, which are white ; the head and 

 neck are feathered, the bill is black, the feet are red. The Indian 

 M. indica is barely separable. M. {Uphippiorh/ipichus) senega! en sis, 

 the Ethiopian " Saddle-billed Stork," differs in having a triangular 

 frontal shield of yellow skin, a naked crimson pectoral si)ot, a 

 crimson bill with black median band, and black metatarsi witli 

 reddish joints. Dlssura episcopus of the Indian and Ethiopian 



