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Young. Head and neck feathered, and streaked with black and 

 white. 



Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



GENUS CARPHIBIS. Head and throat bare. Hind-neck feathered to 

 nape. Long stiff yellow shafts on the fore-neck. 



703. / Spinicollis, Jameson (Geronticusspinicollis), Straw-necked Ibis. 



General colour above black, glossed with steel- green on upper 

 back and mantle, and purplish on scapiilars and wings ; the long 

 upper tail coverts and tail feathers white ; wing coverts and quills 

 black, barred with bronze externally ; centre of neck white, with 

 straw-coloured plumes on each side ; breast and abdomen pure white. 



Young. Head and neck feathered; back sooty -black ; under 

 surface white. 



Total length, male 29 in., female 27 in. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



GENUS PLEG-ADIS. Throat feathered as far as the interramal space ; 

 chin only bare ; lores bare ; cheeks partly bare. 



704. P. falcinellllS, Linn. (Ibis falcinellus), Glossy Ibis. 



Summer Plumage Head, neck, mantle, scapulars, and under 

 surface deep rufous. 



Winter Plumage. Head and neck streaked with black and 

 whitish ; no chestnut as well on mantle and scapulars. 



Young. Similar to winter plumage. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. 



FAMILY PLATALEID^E. 



Bill flattened, narrow in the middle, and widening out into a spoon-shaped 



end. 



GENUS PLATALEA. Head partly bare, oricular orifice covered with 

 plumes. Nostrils elongated and in a shallow depression. 



705. P. regia, Gld. (P. melanorhyncha), Black-billed Spoonbill (Royal 



Spoonbill). 



Whole of plumage white ; crest on crown ; a tinge of sandy-buff 

 on fore-neck ; bill, forehead to behind the line of the eye, fore part of 

 cheeks, and upper throat black ; yellow spot above the eye. 



Young. No crest ; white. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8. 



GENUS PL ATIBIS. Nostrils elongate, and situated in a deep depression, 

 with lateral ridges. Inner secondaries with decomposed plumes, as 

 in an Ibis. 



706. P. flavipes, Gld. (Platalea flavipes, Gld.), Yellow-billed Spoonbill. 



General colour white ; dense tuft of fore-neck feathers straw- 

 colour; bill, forehead, upper throat, and region in front of and 

 behind the eye yellow ; the yellow of face divided from plumage by 

 narrow black line. 



Young. No ornamental plumes on fore-neck. 

 Hab. : 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. 



ORDER HERODIONES. 



Hallux free, not united to the other toes by a web ; nasals holorhinal ; 

 palate desmognathous. 



FAMILY ARDEID^E. 



Hind toe on the same plane as the other toes. Bill rounded or ridged ; bill 

 notched, with no dertral hook at the end. Outer toe with a broad 

 basal web, obsolete at base of inner toe ; middle claw pectinated. 

 Loral space bare ; powder down patches present. 



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