Manners. 



108 I B I S. 



defcribed, the legs are only eight inches in length, whereas in 

 the Scarlet Ibis they are twelve at lead ; in the nrft they do not 

 reach to the end of the tail, but in the laft much beyond it. 

 Place and This is met with at Cayenne, but not in numbers j always ia 



pairs : perches on the decayed trees which float down with the 

 ftrearn, in order to fifth, generally at fome diftance from the fea: 

 and is called by the people at Cayenne, Flammant des Bois. 



, Le Courly varie du Mexique, Br if. Orn. v. p. 333. 7. 



MEXICAN I. L'Acalot, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 45. 



Acacalotl, Raii Syn. p. 104. 5. 

 AcacalotI, or Water Raven, V/ill. Orn. p. 296, 



Description. T HIS is a large fpecies, being three feet in length. The 

 bill eight inches, and blueifh : irides red : between the bill 

 and eyes, and- round them, bare and reddifh : the head and neck 

 covered with dufky, white, and green feathers, with a few yel- 

 low ones intermixed : back and rump black, gloried with green 

 and purple : breaft and belly brown, with a little mixture of red : 

 the wing coverts are green ; and the quills and tail green bronzed 

 with copper : legs black. 

 Piace. This inhabits Mexico, frequenting the lakes, and feeding on 



fijh : it breeds in thofe places, and is accounted pretty good, 

 food. .. 



5- 



BLACK-FACED 



I. CIZE large, not much inferior to the Wood Ibis : length twenty - 



' * eight inches, breadth forty-nine inches and a half. Bill fix. 



inches, and black : tongue triangular, ciliated at, the back part : 



irides reddifh : the whole face, quite beyond the eyes, is bare of 



feathers, 



