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NEW HOLLAND JABIRU. 
(Mycterla Australis.) 
My. alba, cnpife colloque viridi-nigris, tectricibiis pennis scapula^ 
ribus caiidaque nigris, rostra nigro, pedibus rubris. 
White Jabiru, with the head and neck of a green-black j the 
wing-coverts, scapulars, and tail, black 3 the beak black, and 
feet red. 
Mycteria Australis. Linn, Trans. 5. 34. 2 . — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
Sup. Ixiv. 1 . 
New Holland Jabiru. Lath, Ge7i. Spn. Sup. II. 2QA. pi. 138. 
“ This species measures from the tip of the beak 
to the end of the claws full six feet : the beak is 
a foot long : neck fifteen inches : thighs ten inches : 
legs almost the length of the beak ; the upper 
mandible of which is nearly straight, or but just 
sensibly curved upwards ; the under rather more 
so ; the colour of both black : the chin is for a 
little way bare of feathers, and of a reddish colour : 
irides yellow : the head is pretty full of feathers, 
and with about half the neck is black, with a 
tinge of green in some lights, in others of purplish : 
the middle of the wing-coverts, and secondary 
quills, as well as the middle of the back, are 
greenish black, and the tail also is of the same 
colour : the rest of the plumage white : the whole 
of the legs and bare parts above the knee are of a 
fine red : the toes furnished at the end with pale- 
