14 JABIRU. 



GENUS LXXIII.— JABIRU. 



1 American 



2 Indian 



3 New-Holland 



4 Tetaar 



5 While-bellied 



6 Senegal 



5 



1 HE bill in this Genus is long and large, both mandibles bendin 

 upwards ; the upper somewhat triangular. 



Nostrils small. 



Tongue minute.* 



Toes divided. 



1.- AMERICAN JABIRU— Pl. cxliii. 



Mycteria Americana, Ind. Orn. ii. 670. Lin. i. 232. Gm. Lin. i. 616. Borowsk.m. 80. 



Ciconia Braziliensis, Bins. v. 371. Id. 8vo. ii. 306. 



Jabiru-guacu, Raii, 96. b. Will. 202. t. 47. Id, Engl. p. 276. Buf. vii. 282. pi. 13. 



PL ml. 817, 

 Touyouyou, Mem. sur Cay. ii. pi. 3 ? 

 Aouarous, Mem. sur Cay. ii. 254? 

 El Soldado, Gabin. de Madrid, ii. p. 57. lam. 25. 

 Le Collier rouge, Voy. d'Azara,iv. No. 343. 

 Indian Stork's Head, Grew, Mus. pi. 5. f. 1. the bill. 

 American Jabifu, Gen. Syn.v. p. 12. pi. 75. Nat. Misc. pi. 461. 



THIS is a large bird, being, when full grown, six feetf in 

 length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. The bill is 

 black, thirteen inches long,$ and often more, stout, not unlike that 

 of a Stork, and bending a little upwards; irides black; the head, 

 and about two-thirds of the neck bare, and blackish ; the rest of the 



* According to Marcgrave there is no Tongue in the first Species. 



f Individuals differ. Azara's bird was only fifty-two inches and three quarters long.— - 

 Barrere says, it is six feet high as it stands. 



J This varies much: in one at General Davies's the bill was seventeen inches long, but 

 the bird to which it belonged measured only five feet, eight inches. 



