100 IBIDID^E HAGEDASHIA 



Genus III. HAGEDASHIA. 



Type. 

 Hagedashia, Bp. Consp. ii, p. 152 (1855) ................. H. hagedash. 



Bill as in Ibis, about twice the length of the tarsus, with the 

 slit-like nostrils at the base opening in a groove running nearly to 

 the tip of the bill, on either side of the rigid culmen ; crown and 

 face feathered, except for a space between the front of the eye and 

 the base of the bill, the upper part of which is somewhat warty ; 

 wings rounded, fourth primary the longest, the secondaries normal, 

 not produced ; tail of 12 feathers, nearly square ; tarsus covered 

 with hexagonal scales, rather short, shorter than the middle toe 

 and claw. 



Only the one species, here described, is assigned to this genus. 





606. Hagedashia hagedash. Hadada. 



Tantalus hagedash, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 709 (1790). 



Ibis chalcoptera, Vieill. Gal. Ois. ii, p. 123, pi. 246 (1834). 



Ibis hagedash, Grill, K. Vet. Akad. HandL ii, no. 10, p. 54 (1858). 



Geronticus hagedash, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 248, 1865, p. 274 [Natal] ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 320 (1867); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 266; Butler, 



Feilden and Beid, Zool 1882, p. 423. 

 Hagedashia caffrensis, Bp. Consp. ii, p. 152 (1855) ; Gurney in Anders- 



son's B. Damaral. p. 298 (1872). 

 Hagedashia hagedash, Sliarpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. p. 739 (1884) ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 156 (1896) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 19 



(1898) ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 191 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 



1900, p. 439 ; Oales, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 100, pi. v, fig. 5 (1902) ; 



Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 204. 



Theristicus hagedash, Beichenow, Vo'g. Afr. i, p. 325 (1901). 

 Other references are Sparrman, Travels, 8vo ed. i,p. 299 (1785) ; Barrow, 



Travels, i, p. 264 (1801) ; Delagorgue, Voyage, i, p. 114 (1847). 

 " Ingagane " (i.e., Black Ibis) of the Amaxosa (Stanford). 



Description. Adult Female. General colour above dull olive 

 green ; the wing-coverts metallic, showing pinky reflections, while 

 the greater series have a bronzy-gold wash ; wing-quills, except the 

 inner secondaries, which are olive-green, bastard wing, primary- 

 coverts and tail-feathers dark purplish-blue ; whole of the head, 

 neck and under parts ashy-grey, most of the feathers edged and 

 tipped with paler ; a bare space between the eye and the base of 

 the bill black ; ear- coverts uniform ashy-brown, bordered below 



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