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3. 
SENEGAL 
DsscrirTion, 
Flacs. 
JABIR U. 
Senegal Jabiru, Lin. Tranf. v. p. 32. pl. 3. the bead. 
HE length of this bird, from the bill to the end of the claws, is 
fix feet two inches: bill itfelf thirteen inches; neck fifteen inches; 
body twelve inches; the naked part of the thighs eleven inches, the 
feathered part four inches; knee joint one inch; leg thirteen inches 
and a half; the middle toe is five inches and a half, the two outer 
ones four inches and a half, all flichtly conneéted at the bottom: the 
upper mandible is very pale for three inches from the gape; the under 
the fame, for about one inch and a half, then begins a bar of black 
for about three inches ; from thence to the tip the colour is reddifh, 
yncreafing in depth to the end, where it is of a deep vermilion: on 
each fide of the bafe of the upper mandible, is a large femioval and 
femitranfparent fpace, which, at its back part, is continued upwards in 
a curved direction acrofs the fore part of the eye: over the noftrils, 
a bare flattened part, fomewhat in the manner of the Coot, and other 
birds of that tribe: beneath the bafe of the bill, juft at the beginning 
of the feathery part, are two very {mall pear-fhaped pendant wattles, 
adhering by very fmall necks: the head and neck are black; fca- 
pulars black, with pale bottom, and fifteen inches in length; the 
remainder of the bird white: the wings and tail both wanting: the 
legs are very long, and the thighs, to a diftance nearly equal to that 
of the leg itfelf, quite bare: the whole leg and thigh black, excepe 
that round the knee, as well as round each joint of the toes, is a pale 
band or zone. The whole length of the leg and thigh is coated with 
hexagonal longitudinal {cales. 
This appears to be quite a new fpecies, approaching fomewhat to 
the New Holland Fabiru, yet differing from it in feveral particulars. 
We are indebted for the defcription of it to the Linnean Tranfattions, 
in which it is fully defcribed by Dr. Shaw, from a fkin of one lent to 
him by the Rev. Mr. Rackert. Said to inhabit Senegal. 
