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upper mandible is a large femi-oval and femltranfpaj-cnt fpacc, which, 

 at its back part, is continued upwards in a curved direftion acrofs 

 the fore part of the eye. A httle^way down the upper part of the 

 bill runs a bare flattened part, fomewhat.in the manner of the cere 

 in the Tulkce and other birds of that tribe. The whole head and 

 neck are black, and covered with feathers, which, on the head, feem 

 to have been fmall and femi-lctofe on the front, but fomewhat 

 longer and larger on the occiput. Thofe on the neck are ovate- 

 lanceolate and of the ufual ftruaure, or as in the generality of birds. 

 The plumage of the bread, back, thighs, &c. are alfo of the ufual 

 ftru6lure, but much more inclining to a rounded than lanceolate 

 form. The wings were wanting : the flioulders alone remaining, 

 for about the length of four inches; they were covered with white fea- 

 thers. The fcapulars, which were left on each fide, were black, with 

 whitifti bafes : they were about fifteen inches in length. The whole 

 remainder of the bird was white. The tail was entirely wanting. 

 Beneath the bafe of the bill, on the fkinny or gularpart, were fitu- 

 ated two very fmall pear-fhaped, pendant wattles, adhering by very 

 fmall necks : they were feated at about three quarters of an inch 

 from each other, and in the dried fpecimen were of a fubftance re- 

 fembling ifinglafs. The legs are extremely long, and the thighs, 

 to a diftance nearly equal to that of the leg itfelf, are quite bare. 

 The whole leg and thigh of a black colour, except that round the 

 knee, as well as round each joint of the toes, is a pale band or zone. 

 The whole length of the leg and thigh is coated with hexagonally- 

 longitudinal fcales or divifions. 



If this bird be collated with the defcriptions of the MySleria Ame- 

 r'lcana or Common Jabiru, it will clearly appear to be a diftin6l 

 fpccies. It approaches much more nearly to the Mydleria Jiijiralis 

 or New Holland Jabiru, but, in that bird, there is not the flighteft 



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