CEREOPSIS. 
Genus LXXIX*. CEREOPSIS. 
TLL fhort, convex, bent at the tip. 
Nostrits at the bafe, under the cere. 
Heap wholly covered, beyond the ears, with a rough fkin or cere. 
At the bend of the wing a blunt knob. 
Tat fhort, confifting of fixteen feathers. 
Lzcs fitout, bare much above the knee: toes cloven: the outer 
one conneéted to the middle at the bafe: back toe fmall. 
IZE ofa fmall goofe; length thirty-nine inches: neck long: bare 
part of the thigh one inch and three quarters; leg feven inches 
and a half; middle toe three inches and three quarters: the bill is 
black, three quarters of an inch in length; but from the tip to the 
gape an inch and a quarter; the under mandible fhutting clofe under 
the upper; from the bafe of the bill begins a bare rough fkin of a 
yellow colour, covering the whole of the head beyond the ears: the 
plumage is pale afh grey, but the neck and under parts are paler, the 
upper inclining to brown; fome of the wing coverts and axillaries 
have a dufky blackith fpot near the ends, and the quills are dufky 
towards the tips: tail the fame, confifting of fixteen feathers, and 
rounded in fhape : at the bend of the wing a blunt knob: the fecond 
quills nearly as long as the prime ones: the legs are orange colour, 
but the fore part above the bend, the toes, and claws, are black; 
toes four in number, the three forward ones ftout and cloven, but the 
exterior is connected to the middle one by a membrane at the bafe : 
the fole of the foot is a folid knob on which the foot refts, and above 
this a very fmall fourth toe, which fcarcely reaches the ground. 
Inhabits New Holland: the only fpecimen we have feen is in the 
Britifh Mufeum. 
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