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molluscs, they have also been called 'shell-ibises.' Jerdon tells how he saw a blinded 

 open-bill extracting the whole animal of an Ampullaria without bi'eaking the shell, 

 the bird first securing it by its feet and cutting off the operculum. Two species com- 

 pose the genus Anaslonuts, one from India and Indo-China, the other from the Ethio- 

 pian region. The latter, which is the species figured, differs chiefly in having the 







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Flo. S3. — Sphenorhiinchus abdimii, whlte-belUed stork, 



feathers of the neck and lower ])arts ending in a horny lamella, hence the specific 

 name, .1. lainelligerKX. The general color is blackish, shining green, and purple. 



Tiic American jabiru (jri/cferia americana) differs from its Indian and Australian 

 relatives in having the wiiole head and neck naked, ami black, with a flesh-colored 

 ring round the lower end of the neck. In having the end of the bill slightly turned 

 up, the saddle-billed stork (Bj)/iippior/ii/nr/iiis senegaletisis) agrees with the jabirus, 

 but it has a jieculiar, soft membrnnaceous shield on top at base of the bill, therein 

 agreeing with the following species {Sphenorhijnchtis abdimii), of which a figure is 



