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20. -CRESTED IBIS. 



Tantalus cristatus, Ind. Orn. ii. 709. Gm. Lin. i. 650. Nat. Misc. pi. 721. 

 Courlis huppe de Madagascar, Buf. viii. 33. PL enl. 841. 

 Crested Ibis, Gen. Syn. v. 118. 19. 



THIS most beautiful species is twenty inches in length. The bill 

 four inches long, moderately bent, and brownish yellow ; sides of 

 the head, round the eyes, bare, and pale coloured ; the head, and 

 part of the neck black ; at the back part a tuft of very long feathers, 

 half white, half black ; the rest of the neck, and body ferruginous ; 

 the whole wing dirty white; vent and tail black; the legs are pale 

 yellow brown. 



Inhabits Madagascar. 



21.— BLACK-HEADED IBIS. 



Tantalus melanocephalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 709. 

 Black-headed Ibis, Gen. Syn. Sup. 240. 



LENGTH twenty-one inches. Bill six inches long, stout, much 

 curved, and black ; lore, and round the eye bare and black ; head 

 black ; nape, and neck behind marked with small spots of the same ; 

 the rest of the plumage white ; the legs black ; between the toes a 

 membrane ; hind claw long. 



Inhabits India, called Buttore. In Gen. Hardwicke's drawing 

 the ends of the second quills are pale ash ; whole head, and back of 

 the neck, to a point, plain dusky black. 



