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WHITE-NECKED IBIS. 
gradually change from tliat colour to vvliite, before 
they are able to fly : but till the third year they do 
not attain their perfect plumage. Wilson observes 
that an individual of this species lived for a consider- 
able time in confinement, and fed upon flies, which it 
caught most dexterously. 
WHITE-NECKED IBIS. 
•V"(Ibis albicollis.) 
iB.yusca griseo tmdulato, capife colloque rujb-nlbis, tectricihmt 
alarum majoribus albis. 
Brown Ibis undulated with grey, the head and neck reddish- 
white, the greater wing-coverts white, 
Tantalus albicollis. Gmcl Syst. Nai. 1. C53. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 704. 
Le grand Courlis de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 47. 
Courly a col Wane. Biff. PL Enl. 976. 
White-necked Ibis. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 109. 
Length twenty-seven inches : the beak is black : 
the head and neck are rufous white ; but the red pre- 
dominates in the former : the prevailing colour of 
the plumage is brown, undulated with grey, and 
glossed with green : the greater wing-coverts are 
white : the legs are red : inhabits Cayenne. 
