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B. Capite cristato. 
B. Head crested. 
CRESTED IBIS. 
(Ibis cristata.) 
Ib. cristata Jerruginea, capite crisso cauddque nigris, alis albis. 
Crested ferruginous Ibis, with the head, vent, and tail black, the 
wings white. 
Tantalus cristatus. Grnel. Syst. Nat. I.GjO. Lath. hid. Orn. 
2. 709. 
Courlis huppe de Madagascar. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 33. Buff. 
PL Enl. 841. 
Crested Ibis. Lath. Gen. Syyi. 5. 118. 
This Ibis differs greatly from tlie rest in having 
the feathers on the upper part of the neck elongated 
and slightly crested : it is moreover a most beautiful 
species, measuring twenty inches in length : its beak 
is slightly bent and four inches long, of a brownish 
yellow colour : naked space round the eyes and sides 
of the head pale yellow : the head and part of the 
neck are black ; the back part of the latter having a 
tuft of very long feathers, half of them being white, 
and half black : the rest of the neck and body are 
rusty red : the wings dirty white : the vent and tail 
are black : the legs are pale yellowish-brown. Native 
of Madagascar. 
