144 PLATALEA AJAJA. 



these are of a whitish tint, stained with red ; the 

 nostrils are oblong, and phired in the centre of the 

 upper mandible ; from the lower end of each there 

 runs a deep groove along each side of the mandible, 

 and about a quarter of an inch from its >d:' ; whole 

 crown and chin, bare of plumage, and covered with 

 a greenish skin ; that below the under mandible, 

 dilatable like those of the genus pelicanus ; space 

 round the eye, orange ; irides, blood red ; cheeks and 

 hindhead, a bare black skin ; neck, long, covered M ith 

 short white feathers, some of which, on the upper 

 part of the neck, are tipt with crimson ; breast, white, 

 the sides of which are tinged with a brown burnt 

 colour ; from the upper part of the breast proceeds a 

 long tuft of fine hair-like plumage, of a pale rose colour; 

 back, 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, particularly the hind one. The upper 

 part of the neck had the plumage 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. 



