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mandible and throat is of a fine crimson, and said to be capable of 

 great distension ; head, and half the neck, brownish black, with a 

 variable green and copper gloss; between the bill and eye grey; 

 the general colour of the plumage of the lower part of the neck, 

 the body, and wings, white, except on the shoulders, which appear 

 blackish, and tipped with the same copper and green bronze as the 

 head and neck; tail black. 



This also inhabits New-Holland, and differs from the other 

 probably in sex only. As yet they have been found scarce, as only 

 two have been obtained ; but are now and then seen on the muddy 

 banks of the Harbour of Port Jackson, searching for fish, when the 

 tide is out, and on which, no doubt, they principally live. 



4— TETAAR JABIRU. 



LENGTH five feet. Bill twelve inches long, black ; irides 

 yellow ; round the eye a little way bare, but not so at the base of 

 the bill ; the head, and whole of the neck, well clothed with feathers, 

 and black, with a purplish or greenish tinge in some lights ; lower 

 part of the neck, beginning of the back, and all beneath, white ; 

 greater wing coverts black ; back, rump, and tail, black ; the wings 

 are even with the end of the tail; legs red. 



In some drawings from India I observe the crown of the head to 

 be blue; the rest of the head and neck, lower part of the back, tail, 

 and greater wing coverts, fine dark green ; but the beginning of the 

 back, lesser wing coverts, and all beneath, white. 



These two are no doubt the same, and inhabit India; found in 

 the neighbourhood of Futtehguhr, and called Tetaar; builds in the 

 forests, on the summits of the most lofty trees, in June, and lays 

 two or three eggs. In the drawings abovementioned it is named 

 Tintor, or Loho Syren, but more commonly Paunch Caprea; indeed, 



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