ibis. 159 



In one among the drawings of General Hardwicke, the bill, half 

 way from the base, is pale, mottled with black ; on the breast twenty 

 or more narrow long feathers, curving outwards ; legs black. 



23.— DHALAC IBIS. 



LENGTH, from the bill to the end of the claws, two feet and 

 a half. Bill, to the eyes, nearly seven inches, with a regular curve 

 the whole length ; extent of wing four feet three inches ; general 

 colour of the bird black and white ; the bill, and the whole of the 

 neck, bare; plumage white, but the quills and secondaries have the 

 ends black; and a fringe of black, loose feathers falls over the 

 closed wings, which appear to be longer than the tail, and hide it ; 

 length of the thigh bone six inches and one-third ; of the legs four 

 and a quarter ; and round the body fifteen inches ; legs and thighs 

 black. 



Inhabits Massowa, on the Abyssinian Coast ; one is there men- 

 tioned as having been killed in June ; and another seen about Dhalac 

 in January, where it is called Dhalac, by the natives. 



24.— ETHIOPIAN IBIS. 



Tantalus .SLthiopicus, Ind. Orn. ii. 706. 

 Abou Hannes, Bruce' 1 s Trav. App. pi. p. 172. 



Mr. BRUCE describes this as standing nineteen inches high from 

 the back to the ground, when erect ; the upper part of the bill 

 green, the lower black ; head, and all the back part of the neck, 

 brown ; quills for thirteen inches from tail black, the same from the 

 extremity of the tail to six inches up the back ; the rest of the 

 plumage white ; legs black. 



