EGYPTIAN TULTTJEE. 5 



The following is the description of a yearling bird, the age, 

 as is believed, of the specimen before spoken of: Bill, of a 

 dark horn-colour; cere, which is thickest at the base, and 

 reaches over half the length of the bill, yellow; iris, red; 

 (Meyer says that at a year old the iris is brown;) there are 

 a few bristles on the edges of the bill, and between it and 

 the eyes; crest, as in the adult bird. The head is covered 

 with a bare skin of a deep reddish colour; the neck clothed 

 with long hackle feathers, which form a kind of ruff of deep 

 brown, tipped with cream-colour; and the nape with thick 

 white down, interspersed with small black feathers. The chin 

 has some tufts of hair beneath it. The back is cream white; 

 the wings, five feet six to five feet nine inches in expanse; 

 secondaries, pale brown, tipped and edged with yellowish white; 

 larger wing coverts, deep brown, varied with cream white; 

 lesser wing coverts, deep brown near the body, succeeded by 

 lighter feathers, and these again by cream-coloured ones; tail, 

 long and wedge-shaped; legs, yellowish grey; the middle toe 

 has four scales on the last joint, and the outer and inner ones 

 three each; the claws are blackish brown, and only slightly 

 curved. 



