ARDEID^, 317 



longest; tail moderate and broad; tarsi much longer than 

 the middle toe, and covered with reticulated scales ; toos long, 

 and the anterior ones united at the bases, especially tlie outer 

 toe ; the hind toe moderate, with the tip resting on the 

 ground. 



600. Mycteria Senegalensis, Shaw; Lath. 



Gen. Hls., IX., p. 19 ; Oiconia Senegalensis, Vieil. 

 Galer., PI. 255 ; Oiconia Ephippioryncha, Temm. PI. 

 Col. Riipp. Atlas, t. 3. 



Whtte ; head and neck black, glossed with bronze-green ; 

 scapulars, and wing and tail feathers, raven-black ; base of 

 bill to nostril, bright crimson ; as is also the skin round the 

 eye and under the bill (t?he bill from the nostril for 3| 

 inches is black ; from thence to the tip bright crimson) ; 

 frontal shield, bright yellow ; shanks and tarsi black ; knees 

 and feet brick-dust red ; the bare spot on the breast, crim- 

 son. Length, 4f'; wing, 23"; tail, 10"; tarsus, 11 J"; bill, 12". 



This large Stork has not to my knowledge been found anywhere 

 within my limits, excep.t at ITatal. Here it has been observed by Mr. 

 Ayres, whose description of the bill and bare places, taken probably 

 from a fresh-killed specimen, I copy fr^om the " Ibis," Vol. 1862. Mr. 

 Anderson procured it Damaraland. 



Genus ANASTOMUS, Bonnaterre. 

 Bill long, higher than broad at the base, strong, with the 

 culmen nearly straight, and the sides much compressed to vvards 

 the tip ; the lateral margins sometimes worn away, letvving 

 an opening between the mandible, even when closed ; the 

 lower mandible very much compressed, and the gonys 

 lengthened and curved upwards ; the nostrils lateral, pierced 

 in the substance of the bill, with the opening linear and nar- 

 row ; wings long, with the tiiird and fourth quills the lougcc ; ; 

 tail moderate and broad ; tarsi longer than the middle toe, 

 and covered with reticulated scales ; toes long, rather slender, 

 with the anterior toes united at their base, especially the 

 outer ; the hind toe long and slender, with the tip partly rest- 

 ing on the ground. 



601. Anastomus Lamelligerus, Temm., pi. 



Col. 236 ; Hians Capensis, Less. ; Hiator Lamelli- 

 gerus, Bonap, Consp. 11, p. 109. 

 General colour black, shining-green and purple, with the 

 feathers of the lower part of the neck, chest, belly, and 

 thighs, lamellated at their tips, and along the shafts : those on 



