142 ibis. 



middle of the neck the skin is also bare, rough and warty, the 

 colour brown or blackish ; beneath the jaw a pouch, holding at least 

 half a pint ; the whole plumage white, except the quills and tail, 

 which are black ; the bare part of the thighs is four inches. The 

 legs above a foot long, the colour of both dusky yellow; between 

 the toes a membrane. Both sexes are much alike, but in the female 

 the head and chin only are naked. 



Inhabits Carolina, and various parts of South America, frequenting 

 the open savannas, which are under water, during the summer, but 

 retires from the first in November; they often sit on the tall cypress 

 trees in numbers together, resting their ponderous bills on their breast; 

 are stupid birds, and easily shot when once met with ; they feed on fish 

 and reptiles, but are accounted pretty good eating. Known at Brazil 

 by the name of Gnricaca ; by the Portuguese called Masarino : they 

 come in small flocks into Georgia, in June, frequenting the ponds,* 

 and there called Gannet. 



Two of these were in the Museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever, 

 and answered to the above description : the whole plumage white, 

 but except the lesser and middle coverts, the whole wing was black ; 

 tail black. In the male, the whole of the head and neck was bare 

 and rugose ; in the female, only the head and throat were so, the 

 rest of the length covered with short, downy, greyish feathers. In 

 the Museum of the late Dr. W. Hunter was a fine specimen of the 

 male. The bird referred to in Dampier was met with in Shark's Bay, 

 New-Holland. 



A.— Curicaca, Rait, 103, 4. Will. 218. t. 54. Id. Engl. 295. pi. 54. 



In this the head and neck are white, variegated with yellow; the 

 body black, but the back, head, and belly, have a mixture of ash- 

 colour, and in the middle of the wing mixed with grey. This is 

 probably a young bird. 



* Seen on the salts about Aletanaha River most part of the year. 



