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AVES. 
Anthropoid.es pavonina. — Crowned Crane. 
Plate LIX. fig. 5. 
Black, with a slight tinge of lead-colour ; quills black, se¬ 
condaries reddish-brown ; wing-coverts white; head surrounded 
by a crest of filamentous feathers, yellow below and tipped with 
black; ophthalmic region rose-colour; bill and legs black. Four 
feet high. Inhabits Western Africa. 
Genus 11.—ARAMUS. — V ieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill somewhat longer than the head, 
straight, hard, and bending slightly at the point; lower mandi¬ 
ble a little turned in front and concave behind, angular and 
pointed; nostrils lateral, remote from the base of the bill; legs 
robust, long; feet with three toes before, quite divided, with a 
long hallux resting on the ground; nails long and bent; wings 
medium sized, the third quill the longest. 
Aramus scolopacea. — The Scolopaceous Heron. 
Plate LVII. fig. 8. 
Head, neck, and breast, reddish-fawn colour, the centre of 
each feather being white; wings, back, tail, tibial feathers, and 
crissum, chestnut-brown; the wing-coverts spotted with white ; 
throat and cheeks white ; irides yellow ; bill brown ; legs dusky 
brown. Twenty-five inches long. Inhabits Cayenne. 
Genus 12. — AD RE A.— Linnceus. 
Generic Character. —Bill as long as the head, longer in some 
species, straight, compressed, and pointed ; upper mandible slight¬ 
ly sulcated, and ridge rounded; nostrils lateral, situated near 
the base of the bill, longitudinally cleft in the groove, and partly 
hid by a membrane ; orbits and lores naked ; legs long, slender, 
the lower part of the tibia without feathers; feet with three 
toes before, the middle one connected with the outer by a short 
membrane; claws long, bent, and compressed, the middle one 
laterally dentated; hallux long, resting on the ground. 
Section I.—Bill longer than the head; upper mandible 
nearly straight; a considerable portion of the tibia naked. 
