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PLATALEA AJAJA. 
these are of a whitish tint, stained with red ; the 
nostrils are oblong, and placed in the centre of the 
upper mandible ; from the lower end of each there 
runs a deep groove along each side of the mandible, 
and about a quarter of an inch from its edge ; whole 
crown and chin, bare of plumage, and covered with 
a greenish skin ; that below the under mandible, 
dilatable like those of the genus pelicanus ; space 
round the eye, orange ; irides, blood red ; cheeks and 
hindhead, a bare black skin ; neck, long, covered with 
short white feathers, some of which, on the upper 
part of the neck, are tipt with crimson ; breast, white, 
the sides of which are tinged with a brown burnt 
colour ; from the upper part of the breast proceeds a 
long tuft of fine hair-like plumage, of a pale rose colour ; 
back, white, slightly tinged with brownish ; wings, a 
pale wild rose colour, the shafts lake ; the shoulders of 
the w ings are covered with long hairy plumage, of a 
deep and splendid carmine ; upper and lower tail-coverts, 
the same rich red ; belly, rosy ; rump, paler ; tail, equal 
at the end, consisting of twelve feathers of a bright 
brownish orange, the shafts reddish,* legs and naked 
part of the thighs, dark dirty red ; feet, half webbed ; 
toes, very long, particularly the hind one. The upper 
part of the neck had the plumage partly worn away, as 
if occasioned by resting it on the back, in the manner 
of the ibis. The skin on the crown is a little wrinkled ; 
the inside of the w ing a much richer red than the 
outer. 
