350 CLASS AVES. 



the ash-coloured bill. It is the Ciconia Americana, 

 Brisson, and Ciconia Maguari. Temm. 



Small Black Stork of Nubia. Cic. Abdimii. Licht. 

 Ruppel. Av. t. 8. 



Purple-green ; belly and rump, white ; face and 

 throat, naked ; frontal shield, depressed, cartilagi- 

 nous ; wings, beneath, purplish-green. North Africa, 

 Egypt, and Senegal. 



The Violet Stork. C. Leucocephala. Gm. Enl. 206. 



Bill, dusky-brown ; tongue extremely small ; above, 

 generally bluish-black, glossy with violet ; head and 

 upper neck, white ; below, same. East Indies. The 

 Ciconia Umbellata, Wagler. 



Among the foreign species may be distinguished, 



The Storks with naked neck, 



Whose bill is still more gross than in the other 

 species, but of a light substance j and among 

 them, 



The Gigantic Crane. Ardea Duhia, Gm. Ard. 

 Argah. Lath. 



Which have under the middle of the neck an appen- 

 dage like a thick sausage. The feathers of the under 

 part of the wing, give out into long and downy 

 plumes, called marabous. There are two species : one 

 of Senegal, with simple mantle, ( Cic. Marabou. Tem. 

 Col. 300.) The other of the East Indies, in which 



