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ARDEID^. 



GENUS CCCXXXIII.— MYCTERIA, Linne. JABIRU. 

 Generic character: vide Stepk, v, xi. p. 625. 



GENUS CCCXXXIV.— SCOPUS, Brisson. UMBRE. 

 Generic character : vide Stepk. v. xi. p. 635. 



GENUS CCCXXXV.— ANASTOMUS, Illiger. COURLY. 

 Generic character : vide Stepk. v. xi. p. 631. 



An. Typus. TemmincJc. — An. Cororaandelianus. Stepk. v.'xi. 



p. 632. — An. Ponticeranus. Stepk. v. xi. p. 632.; young. 

 An. lamelligerus. Temm. PL Col, 236. 



An, niger, nitore viridi et purpureo; pennis colli ventris femo- \ 

 rumque apicihus lamellatis; lamellis et rackidibus pennarum \ 

 dorsi tecLriciumque alaruyn atris. 



Black Courly shining with green and purple ; with the feathers 

 of the neck, belly, and thighs lamellated at their tips 5 the 

 lamellae and shafts of the feathers of the back and wing-coverts 

 deep black. 



Inhabits Africa. About three feet in length, 

 the beak above seven inches. Remarkable for the 

 lamellated appendages at the tips of all the feathers 

 of the neck, belly, and thighs : the appendages some- 

 what resemble those on the v^ings of the Bombycilla 

 Bohemica or the hackles of the Gallus Sonnerati, and 

 are of a glossy black : all the shafts of the feathers oi 

 the back and the wing-coverts are of the same colour, 

 with a metallic gloss, but they are not prolonged 

 into lamina: the entire plumage is black, slightly 

 glossed with tints of green and purple, and with a | 

 brilliant lustre on the laminae and shafts of the' 

 feathers, giving a fine metallic appearance in a full 

 light : the legs are black, and the beak is horn- 



