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ASCRIPTION. 



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Manners. 



Tantalus leucocephalus, Zool. Ind. p. 20. t. 10. 

 White-headed Ibis, lnd. Zool. p. 1 1. pi. io. 



ARGER than our Curlew. Bill yellow, very long, and 

 thick at the bafe, and a little incurvated : noftrils very nar- 

 row, and placed near the head : all the fore part of the head, 

 quite behind the eyes, covered with a bare yellow fkin, which 

 ieems a continuation of the bill ; the reft of the head, neck, back, 

 belly, and fecondaries, white : acrofs the breaft a tranfverfe broad 

 band of black : the quills and wing coverts black : tail coverts 

 very long, and of a fine pink-colour; thefe fall over, and conceal 

 the tail : the legs and thighs very long, and of a dull flefh-colour : 

 the feet connected by webs as far as the firft joint. 



This bird was taken in the IJle of Ceylon, and kept tame for 

 fome time at Colombo: it made a fnapping noife with the bill, 

 like a Stork; and, what was remarkable, its fine rofy feathers loft 

 their colour during the rainy feafon. 



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Description. 



Courly a tete nue, Buf. 01/. viii. p. 32. — PL Enl. 867. 

 Br. Mb/ Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of the common Curlew : length from twenty-fix to thirty- 

 one inches.. Bill five inches and three quarters long, and of a 

 red colour : the head and part of the neck bare of feathers, and 

 tuberculated at the back part ; the whole crown is red, the reft 

 white: fkin of the throat flaccid, dilatable, and bare of fea- 

 thers : irides brown : the plumage in general black, gloried with 

 green on the wing coverts; the tips of them glofled with coppem 



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