168 ibis. 



the scapulars seem as it were double, the upper set nearly the same 

 as the coverts, having a brown black tinge, and smooth at the ends 

 and sides; the others, or longer ones, reaching almost as far as the 

 quills, have a browner tinge, and fringed from the quill to the front 

 edges; the quills darker than the rest ; tail rounded at the end, and 

 the wings, when closed, reach to about the middle of it ; legs dusky 

 black, or deep brown ; the bare parts above the knee minutely 

 tessellated, and occupying the space of four inches; from the joint 

 to the toes three inches and a half; the middle toe about the same 

 length, the outer one shorter ; at the base, between that and the 

 middle one, a membrane ; the claws of all moderate. 



So for a general description of both sexes, but the male differs 

 in several points; chin and throat bare, forming a kind of pouch, 

 seen also in others of this Genus; much less conspicuous in the other 

 sex : sides of the neck, and from the nape on each side, mixed with 

 white ; on the fore part of the neck, under the pouch, a series of 

 slender, stiff feathers, or rather wire-like appendages, imitating split 

 bamboo, minutely divided, and in colour not unlike it; axillary 

 feathers white ; three or four of the inner quills have the outer webs 

 very loose, and disjoined ; bare part above the knee deep red : in 

 the bill, too, it differs from the other sex, as the sides of it, to one- 

 fourth from the base, are transversely, and irregularly indented. 



Inhabits New-Holland. In the collection of Mr. Bullock. — > 

 A specimen of the female in that of Mr. H. Brogden. 



32 —BLACK-FACED IBIS.-- Pl. cl. 



Tantalus melanops, Ind. Orn. ii. 704. Gm. Lin. i. 653. 

 Black-faced Ibis, Gen. Syn. v. 108. pl. lxxix. 



SIZE not much inferior to the Wood Ibis; length twenty-eight 

 inches; breadth forty-nine and a half. Bill six inches long, and 

 black ; tongue triangular, ciliated at the back part ; irides reddish ; 



