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GENUS XXXVIIL 

 TANTALUS. 



Bill long, incurved, thick at the base ; face, and 

 sometimes the whole neck bare of feathers ; nostrils 

 linear ; tongue short ; toes connected at the base by 

 a membrane. 



1. IGNEUS. ) 



VIHID1S, Syn. VGLOSSY IBIS. 

 FALCINELLUS,) 



T. corpore nigricante cceruleo viridi et vinaceo va- 

 riegato-nitente, capite colloque nigris pennis al- 

 bidofimbriatis. Lath. 



The bill is about 5 inches long, smooth, roundish, 

 much bent, of a green colour ; fading to olive when 

 dead ; the eyelids are brown ; the irides olive ; the 

 eyes are placed in a white space ; under the chin it 

 has a small dilatable pouch ; the head and neck 

 are black, the feathers fringed with white ; the rest 

 of the body is variegated with blackish blue-green 

 and vinaceous ; and in general very glossy ; the quills 

 are green gold, and when closed reach to the end of 

 the tail ; the wing-coverts next the body are reddish, 

 mixed with blue ; the next series are black, red and 

 green ; the last and quills are green gold ; the tail 

 the same, glossed in different lights, with red and 



