432 CEREOPSIS. 



GENUS XC — CEREOPSIS. 



JjILL short, convex, bent at the tip. 



Nostrils at the base, under the cere. 



Tongue obtuse, whole. 



Head covered, as far as the eyes, with a rough skin or cere; at 

 the bend of the wing a blunt knob. 



Tail short, consisting of sixteen feathers. 



Legs stout, bare above the knee ; toes united by a membrane, 

 half way from the base ; back toe small. 



NEW-HOLLAND CEREOPSIS— Pl. clxii. 



Ceieopsis Novse Hollandiae, Ind. Om. Sup. lxvi. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. cvii. 

 New-Holland Cereopsis, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 325. pl. 138.* 



SIZE of a small Goose ; length nearly three feet. Neck long; 

 the bill is black, thirteen or fourteen lines long, but from point to 

 gape somewhat more ; the under mandible shutting close beneath 

 the upper; from the base of the bill begins a bare, rough, yellow 

 skin, rather swelling, and covering the whole as far as the eyes at 

 least, and round them as a cere ;* the plumage for the most part ash 

 grey, but the neck and under parts are paler, the upper inclining 

 to brown ; some of the wing coverts and axillaries have a dusky 

 blackish spot near the ends, and the quills are dusky towards the tips; 

 the tail is rounded in shape; at the bend of the wing a blunt knob; 

 the second quills nearly as long as the primaries ; the bare part of 

 the thighs is one inch and three quarters ; leg seven inches and a 

 half; middle toe three inches and three quarters; the bare parts are 

 orange-colour, but the fore part, above the bend, the toes, and claws 



* In the specimen we first saw, this bare part extended far beyond the eyes. 

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