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Genus LXII. J A B I R U. 

 I. American J. 



ILL long and large, both mandibles bending upwards j the 

 upper triangular. 

 Noftrils fmall. 

 No tongue *_ 

 Toes divided. 



AMERICAN J. 



Descriptton. 

 Pl. LXXV. 



Mydteria Americana, Lin. Sy/r. i. p. 232. 



La Cicogne du Brefil, Sri/. Orn. v. p. 371. 4. 



Le Jabiru, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 280. pl. 13.— Pl. Enl. 817.— Raii Syn. p. <j6i 



4. — Will. Orn. p. 275. pl. 47 f. 

 Le Cicogne de la Guiane, Brif. Orn. v. p. 373. 



Jabiru-guacu, Nhandhu-apoa, Rati Syn. p. 96 5.— Will. Orn. p. 276. 

 Touyouyou, Mem. fur Cayenne, vol. ii. p. 263. pl. 3. 



*"p HIS bird in fize yields only to the OJlrich, and is in length J 

 not far from fix feet. The bill is thirteen inches long, flout, 

 not unlike that of a Stork, and bends upwards ; the colour is 

 black : the whole plumage is white, except the head, and about two- 

 thirds of the neck, which are bare of feathers, and of a blackifh 

 colour ; the remainder is alfo bare, and of a fine red : on the 



* Marcgrave. 



f By this reference is meant the till at the bottom of the plate.— See alfo 

 Gre-w's Muf. t. v. f. 1. 



J Barren fays fix feet in height as it llandj. See Fr. Eq. 133. 



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