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white, slightly tinged with brownish; wings a pale wild-rose 

 colour, the shafts lake; the shoulders of the wings are covered 

 with long hairy plumage of a deep and splendid carmine; upper 

 and lower tail coverts the same rich red; belly rosy; rump paler; 

 tail equal at the end, consisting of twelve feathers, of a bright 

 brownish orange, the shafts reddish; legs, and naked part of the 

 thighs, dark dirty red; feet half webbed; toes very long, parti- 

 cularly the hind one. The upper part of the neck had the plu- 

 mage partly worn away, as if occasioned by resting it on the 

 back, in the manner of the Ibis. The skin on the crown is a 

 little wrinkled; the inside of the wing a much richer red than 

 the outer. 



