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Leucocei'HALUS. With wliite head, neck, and body, bill 

 and face yellow, legs pale, and rump witli very long rufous fea- 

 thers : the white-headed ibis of Latham. Found in Ceylon. 



Calvus. With white head, the hinder part of the neck 

 tuberculated, with the jugular bag bare, the crown, bill, 

 and legs black, and body black : the bald ibis of Latham. 

 Found in the weftern parts of Africa. 



Makilleksis. With the bill and orbits greenifli, legs 

 \ermilion-coloured, ajid body red-brown : the Manilla ibis 

 of Latham. Found in the ifland of Lu^on. 



Cristatus. With pale face, head, part of the neck, 

 tail, and vent black, the creft on the hinder part of tlie head 

 long with feathers partly white and p.irtly black, ferru- 

 ginous body, and whitifli wings ; the crefted ibis of Latham. 

 Found in Madagafcar. 



Niger. With face, bill, and legs red, and black body : 

 the black ibis of Latham. Found in Egypt, near Da- 

 inietta. 



Coco. With face and bill ycllow-flcniy, legs flediy pale, 

 body white, wings as far as the apex white, the three outer 

 quill-feathers black above at the apex. Found in the Ca- 

 ribbee i Hands. 



Pii,i,us. With face, bill, and legs brown, body white, 

 quill and tail-feathers black. Found near the rivers and 

 Lkes of Chili. 



Cayennexsis. With face obfcurely reddifh, obfcure 

 bill, body black and fhining green : the Cayenne ibis of 

 Latham. 



MEXiCANtJS. With blueifh bill, reddifh face, head and 

 neck obfcure and white, a little varied with green and yel- 

 low, back, rump, and legs black, breaft and abdomen 

 trown, tail and quill-feathers brafiy-green : the acalotl of 

 Ray and Willughby, the acalot of Buffon, and the Mexican 

 ibis of Latham. Found near the lakes of New Spain. 



Melanopis. With bill, face, and nails black, crown 

 yellow, neck and breaft yellowilli, the feathers of the back, 

 the fcapulars, and tail-feathers, and peftoral band, cinereous, 

 brown at the margin, the eyes and tail green and black, and 

 the legs red : the black-faced ibis of Latham. 



Albicollis. , With black bill, head and neck rufous- 

 white, body brown with grey waves and lliining green, and 

 red legs : the white-necked ibis of Latham. Found in 

 Cayenne. 



Griseus. With fpadiceous bill, face and nails black, 

 hind part of the head and neck grey, body whitifh, back, 

 rump, quills, and tail greenifh-black, and reddifh legs : the 

 grey ibis of Latham, and matuiti of Willughby and DufFon. 

 Found in Brafil. 



Tanta Lva's Clip, in Hydraulics, is a cup, as A ( P/. VI IL 

 Hydraulics, fig. 6. ) with a hole in the bottom, and the longer 

 leg of the ilphon B C E D cemented into the hole ; fo that 

 the end D of the fhorter leg D E, may almoft touch the 

 bottom of the cup within. Then, if water be poured into 

 this cup, it will rife in the fhorter by its upward prefTure, 

 extruding the air before it through the longer leg ; and 

 when the cup is filled above the bend of the fiphon at F, 

 the prefTure of the water in the cup will force it over the 

 bend of the fiphon ; and it will defcend in the longer leg 

 C B G, and even through the bottom, until the cup be 

 emptied. The legs of this fiphon are almoft clofe together, 

 and it is fometimes concealed by a fmall hollow ftatue, or 

 figure of a man placed over it ; the bend F being within the 

 neck of the figure as high as the chin. So that poor thirfty 

 Tantalus ftands up to the chin in water, according to the 

 fable, imagining it will rife a little higher, and he may drink ; 

 but, inftead of that, when the water comes up to his chin, 

 it immediately begins to defcend, and therefore, as he cannot 



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Hoop to follo^' it, he is left as much tormented with tiiirll 

 as ever. 



TANTAMOUNT, fomcthing that amounts to, or ia 

 equivalent to, fome other. 



TANTANEH, in Geography, a mountain of Africa, 

 which form? the fouth boundary of Bcrdoa. 



TAN-TCHING, a town of Corea ; 33 miles W.S.W, 

 of Tfin-tcheou. 



TANTECO, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Guafteca ; 25 miles N. of Panuco. 



TAN-THOUI-TCHING, a toxni on the W. coall of 

 the ifland of Formofa. N. lat. 25° 8'. E. long. 120^49'. 



T ANTRA, tiie name of a branch of literature among 

 the Hindoos, of which we have hitherto received but very 

 imperfeft information. The books bearing this title appear 

 to contain direttions for certain religious ui'ages adopted by 

 fome fefts and condemned by others. (See Sakta.) The 

 name Tantra, or Yantra, is alfo given to myfterious hiero- 

 glyphics, facred to particular deities. See Mantra, Yan- 

 tra, and Parlisha. 



TANTUM Deoies. See Decies. 



TANTUMQUERI, in Geography, a town of Africa, 

 in the country of Fantin, on the Gold Coaft, with two forts, 

 one belonging to the Englifh, the other to the Dutch. N. 

 lat. 5° 20'. W. long. 2" 54'. 



TANTUR. SeeToRTiiRA. 



TANUM, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 31 

 miles N.W. of Uddevalla. 



TANUO, a town of Peru, i» the arclibilhopric of Lima, 

 and jurifdiftion of Cagnete. 



TANURI, a town of Sweden, in the government of 

 Bahus ; 30 miles N.N.W. of Uddevalla. 



TANUS, in yincient Geography, a river of Greece, in 

 the Peloponnefus, which had its fource in mount Parnon, 

 traverfed the Argolide, and difch.arged itfelf into the gulf 

 of Thyraea. 



TANXIPA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Guafteca, at the foot of a mountain ; 70 milet 

 N.N.W. of Panuco. 



TANYGONG, a town of Hindooftan, in Berar ; 36 

 miles W. of Nagpour. 



TANZIPAO, a river of Louifiana, which runs into 

 Pontchartrain lake, N. lat. 30° 18'. W. long. 90° 10'. 



TANZU, a town of Africa, in Angola, near the coaft ; 

 20 miles S.W. of Loando. 



TANZY, in Botany, Sec. See Tanacetum and Tan.sy. 



TAOCE, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in the 

 interior of the Perfide, near the town of Orcbatis. — Alfo, 

 a promontory of Afia, on the coaft of the Perfide, 500 

 ftadia from the mouth of the river Oroatis, and 700 ftadia 

 from that of the river Rhogoniagus. 



TAOCENA, a country of Afia, in the Perfide. 



TAOCHL a people of Afia, in the mountains of Ar- 

 menia. 



TAO-LOU-SAC, or Ta, in Geography, a town of 

 Lower Canada. N. lat. 48° 5'. W. long. 69° 30'. 



TAONABO, in Botany. See ToNABEA and TeRK- 



STROMIA 



TAONEROA, in Geography. See Poverty Bay. 



TAOO LsLAND, one of the Friendly iflands, in the 

 South Pacific ocean, about 24 miles in circumference. 



TAOOK, a town of Curdiftan, fituated in a barren 

 country, N. of an extonlive vale, which is about 20 miles 

 over, and has a chain of mountains on each fide, running E. 

 and W. 



TAORMINA, the ancient Tauromenium, a town of 

 Sicily, in -the valley of Demona, fituated on the E. coaft, 



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