THE STRAW-NECKED IBIS 



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Genus C'arphiiis. 

 Head and throat bare. Hind neck feathered to nape. Long 

 stiff yellow shafts on the foreneck. 



The Straw-necked Ibis. 



Carphibis spinicollis. 

 Australia. 



Above glossy bluish black or steel-green; purplish on the wings, and 

 the whole of the upper parts barred across with black; lower back black; 



Z>. Le Souef. Melbinirne Zoo. 



Straw-necked Ibis, Adult and Young : Carphibis spinicollis. 



long upper tail-coverts and tail feathers white; crown of head and fore 

 part of throat bare, surrounded by white ruff; centre of fore neck 

 white, with long straw-coloured plumes on each side; underparts white. 

 Total length 29 inches, culmen 8, wing 14.7, tail 5.4, tarsus 3. .3. 



Nest and egg similar to those of the White Ibis ; also nest in 

 companies, sometimes to the number of three hundred thousand 

 on one swamp. Eggs measure about the same. 



