156 ibis. 



crown is red, the rest white ; skin of the throat flaccid, dilatable, 

 and bare; irides brown ; the plumage in general black, on the wing 

 coverts glossed with green, and the tips with copper ; the tail seven 

 inches long, consisting of twelve feathers, and the wings reach to 

 the bend of it ; legs pale red. 



The female scarcely differs, except in having the top of the head 

 more flat. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and other parts of Africa, 

 near watery places ; is not difficult to be tamed, as one was kept for 

 a time in the Company's Garden, at the Cape; is most plentiful 

 about Sea-cow River : it also extends to India. One of these, in 

 some drawings from thence, had the bill of a yellowish colour; 

 plumage in general black ; on the bend of the wing, at the scapulars, 

 white; under belly ash-colour; legs pale red. The name given to it 

 was Corcula. 



In some drawings in the collection of Lord Mountnorris, sent 

 from Oude, the bill is pale lead-colour; head and throat bare, rugose, 

 and black ; but the hind part, from the middle of the crown, velvety 

 red, and some white at the middle of the inner ridge of the wing ; 

 belly and thighs ash-colour; the legs very rough, pale red, and 

 rather short, but this I have observed in every drawing of it. In the 

 the above drawings it was named Corankool. 



19.— MANILLA IBIS. 



Tantalus Manillensis, Lid. Orn. ii. 708. Gm. Lin.'i. 649. 

 Courly brun de LU9011, Son. Voy. 85. pi. 47. Buf. viii. 31. 

 Manilla Ibis, Gen. Syn. v. 117. 



SIZE of our Curlew. Bill greenish ; eye encircled with a naked, 

 greenish skin ; irides bright red ; plumage in general rufous brown ; 

 legs the colour of red lake. 



Inhabits the Island of Luconia. 



