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equal at the end, consisting of twelve feathers of a bright brown- 

 ish orange, the shafts reddish; legs and naked part of the thighs 

 dark dirty red; feet half webbed; toes very long, particularly the 

 hind one. The upper part of the neck had the plumage partly 

 worn away, as if occasioned by resting it on the back, in the man* 

 ner of the Ibis. The skin on the crown is a little wrinkled; the 

 inside of the wing a much richer red than the outer. 



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