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NF.W HOLLAND JABIRU. 



(Mycteria Australis.) 



My. alba, capite collogue viridi-nigris, tectricibus pennis scapula- 

 ribus caudaque nigris, rostro nigro, pedibus rubris. 



White Jabiru, with the head and neck of a green-black ; the 

 wing-coverts, scapulars, and tail^ black 3 the beak black, and 

 feet red. 



Mycteria Australis. Linn, Trans, 5. 34. 2. — Lath, Lid. Orn, 

 Sup. Ixiv. I. 



New Holland Jabiru. Lath, Gen. Syn. Sup. LI. 2QA, pi. 138. 



This species measures from the tip of the beak 

 to the end of the claws full six feet : the beak is 

 a foot long : neck fifteen inches : thighs ten inches : 

 legs almost the length of the beak ; the upper 

 mandible of which is nearly straight, or but just 

 sensibly curved upwards ; the under rather more 

 so ; the colour of both black : the chin is for a 

 little way bare of feathers, and of a reddish colour : 

 irides yellow : the head is pretty full of feathers, 

 and wdth about half the neck is black, with a 

 tinge of green in some lights, in others of purplish : 

 the middle of the wing-coverts, and secondary 

 quills, as well as the middle of the back, are 

 greenish black, and the tail also is of the same 

 colour : the rest of the plumage white : the whole 

 of the legs and bare parts above the knee are of a 

 fine red : the toes furnished at the end with pale- 



