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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 ; LZ. javanicus 
of Manchuria and the Indian Region 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 
Fic. 29.—White Stork. Ctconia alba. x 75. 
naked head having a hairy patch on the occiput, and the bare 
neck a red distensible basal band. The Australian and Papuan 
M. (Xenorhynchus) australis is black 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. JL (Ephippiorhynchus) senegalensis, 
the Ethiopian “ Saddle-billed Stork,” differs in having a triangular 
frontal shield of yellow skin, a naked crimson pectoral spot, a 
crimson bill with black median band, and black metatarsi with 
reddish joints. Dissuwra episcopus of the Indian and Ethiopian 
