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BLACK-FACEl) IBIS. 
"f (Ibis melanopis.) 
In, capite coUoque J'alvis, dorso a/is fosciaqiie pectorali cincreis, 
7-emigibiis rectricibus femoribris crissnque nigris. 
Ibis, witli the head and neck fulvous, the back, wings, and pec- 
toral fascia ash-coloured, the quills, tail, thighs, and vent, 
black. 
Tantalus melanopis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 653. Latli, Ind. Oni. 
2. 704'. 
Black-faced Ibis. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 5. I08.pl. 79. 
The black-faced Ibis is figured and thus described 
by Dr. Latham in his Synopsis : " Size large, not 
much inferior to the Wood Ibis ; length twenty-eight 
inches, breadth forty-nine inches and a lialf : bill six 
inches, and black : tongue triangular, ciliated at the 
back part : irides reddish : the whole face, quite be- 
yond the eyes, is bare of feathers, black and warty, 
particularly round the eyelids : under the chin hangs 
a loose, wrinkled, bare skin, forming a pouch : the 
crown of the head is deep fulvous yellow, and the 
feathers at the back part longish : the rest of the neck 
and breast pale yellow : the back and scapulars are 
cinereous, margined with brown : across the breast a 
band of the same : the middle of the feathers of the 
back brown : the v^^ing-coverts blueish ash-colour, mar- 
gined with brown : the quills, sides, thighs, vent, and 
tail, are greenish-black ; the last consists of twelve 
feathers, and is rounded in shape : the legs are seven 
inches long, rough, naked but a little above the knee, 
and red : claws black. This species was found by 
Dr. Forster on New Year's Island, near Staten Land, 
