SENEGAL JABIllU. 
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Mycteria Senegalensis. Shatv, Linn. Trans. 5. 32. pi. 3. (head.) 
Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixiv. 2. 
Senegal Jabiru. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 2Q6. 3. 
Dr. Shaw has given a very ample description 
of this bird in the Linnean Transactions. Its 
length, from the beak to the end of the claws, is 
six feet two inches : beak thirteen inches : neck 
fifteen inches : body one foot : the naked part of 
the thighs eleven inches ; the feathered part four 
inches : knee joint an 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 slightly connected at the base : the upper man- 
dible is Very pale for three inches from the gape ; 
the under the same 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 red- 
dish, increasing in depth to the end, where it is of 
a deep vermillion : on each side of the base of 
the upper mandible is a large semi-oval and semi- 
transparent space, which at its back part is con- 
tinued upwards, in a curved direction, across the 
fore-part of the eye : over the nostrils a bare 
flattened part, somewhat in the manner of the 
Coot: beneath the base of the beak, just at the 
beginning of the feathered part, are two very 
small pear-shaped pendant wattles, adhering by 
very small necks : the head and neck are black : 
scapulars black, with pale bases, and fifteen inches 
in length : the remainder of the bird white : the 
