312 ON THE IBIS. 



in his voyage to Australasia made along with 

 M. d'Entrecasteux. 



We afterwards learned, that, when young, 

 these birds have the head and neck furnished 

 with feathers in the part which, as they advance 

 in age, is to become bare ; and that the scapulars 

 are less elongated, and of a paler and duller black. 

 It is in this state that one was brought to us from 

 Australasia by the late Peron, which, in other 

 respects, differs from ours, and from that of M. 

 Labillardiere, only in having some black mark- 

 ings on the alula and first large coverts, and in 

 which the head and upper part of the neck are 

 covered with blackish feathers. It was also a 

 youngish individual which M. Savigny brought 

 from Egypt, and which is figured in his memoir 

 upon the Ibis, Plate I. ; and in the great work 

 on Egypt, under the head Birds, PI. vn. The 

 feathers of the head and back part of the neck 

 are rather grey than black ; those of the fore part 

 of the neck are white. Lastly, Bruce's figure 

 (Atlas, Plate xxxv.) is also taken from a young 

 individual observed in Abyssinia, and almost si- 

 milar to that of M. Savigny. 



We have received from Pondicherry, by M. 

 Leschenault, an individual similar to that of Pe- 

 ron, but in which, the head only, and a small part 

 of the back of the neck, are furnished with black- 

 ish feathers ; all the rest is covered with white 



