500 SCOLOPACEOUS COURLAN. 
from the base, and in the lateral furrow they are entirely per- 
forated, longitudinal, and somewhat elliptical: the tongue is 
elastic, narrow, and acute. ‘The bill is yellow at base, and 
of a corneous blue-black at tip: the eyelids are yellow, 
the iris brown; the legs pale lead-colour, and the nails 
black. 
The feet are elongated, and much of the tibia naked, the 
bare space measuring three inches: the tarsus, four and a half 
inches long, much exceeds the middle toe: the four toes are 
slender, all cleft from the base, long, unequal, and compressed ; 
the inner is a little shorter than the outer, the middle longest, 
measuring three inches without the nail; the hind toe is 
rather more than one inch, and slender: it is inserted in an 
unusual manner, opposite to the base of the inner toe, but 
much higher, and with only the last joint, which is very 
short, resting on the ground. The unfeathered part of the 
tibia is covered behind with transverse scutella, the anterior 
with large angulose scales; the tarsus behind has a double 
longitudinal series of knobs, before it is covered with oblique 
scutella ; the cnemidia, that is, the lower part of the naked 
tibia, are squamulose ; the toes scutellate, and warty beneath : 
the nails are moderate, arcuated, acute; the hind nail is rather 
the smallest: the middle is the largest, and dilates internally 
into a sharp edge, perfectly entire, and by no means pectinated, 
any opinions or statements to the contrary notwithstanding. 
The body is compressed, but fleshy : the neck cylindrical 
and slender : the face and lora entirely feathered. When it is 
stated that some specimens have these parts bare, it is because 
the other Guarauna, which is an Ibis, has been confounded 
with it. The tail is moderate, scarcely six inches long, plane, 
broad, rounded, and composed of twelve broad feathers. 
The wings are twelve and a half inches long, ample, and 
rounded-obtuse: the first quill is moderately long, and equal 
with the eighth, and by more than two inches shorter than 
the second, which is equal to the sixth : it is peculiarly shaped, 
narrower at base than at tip, where it is very blunt: the third 
