SE>JEGAL JABIRU. 



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Mycteria Senegalensis. Shaxto. Linn, Trans. 5. 32. pL 3. (head,) 



Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Ixiv. 2. 

 Senegal Jabiru. Lath, Syn, Sup, II, 2g6. 3. 



Dr. Shaw has given a very ample description 

 of this bird in the Linnean Transactions. Its 

 length, from the beak to the end of the claws, is 

 six feet two inches: beak thirteen inches: neck 

 fifteen inches : body one foot : the naked part of 

 the thighs eleven inches ; the feathered part four 

 inches : knee joint an inch : leg thirteen inches 

 and a half : the middle toe is five inches and a 

 half ; the two outer ones four inches and a half, 

 all slightly connected at the base : the upper man- 

 dible is tery pale for three inches from the gape ; 

 the under the same for about one inch and a 

 half, then begins a bar of black for about three 

 inches ; from thence to the tip the colour is red- 

 dish, increasing in depth to the end, where it is of 

 a deep Vermillion : on each side of the base of 

 the upper mandible is a large semi-oval and semi- 

 transpar^^nt space, which at its back part is con- 

 tinued upwards, -in a curved direction, across the 

 fore-part of the eye : over the nostrils a bare 

 flattened part, vsomewhat in the manner of the 

 Coot: beneath the base of the beak, just at the 

 beginning of the feathered part, are two very 

 small pear-shaped pendant wattles, adhering by 

 very small necks : the head and neck are black : 

 scapulars black, with pale bases, and fifteen inches 

 in length : the remainder of the bird white : the 



