changeable lustre. The bill is black, and beneath 
the lo wer mandible, to'some little distance down the 
throat, is an extensile naked skin or sacculusofa 
bright red colour : the rest of the bird is of a snowy 
■whiteness, the coverts of the wings, and the tail ex¬ 
cepted, which are jet-black : the legs and feet are 
of a bright red. According to some very accurate 
drawings, in the collection of Mr. White, Chief 
Surgeon to the Settlement at Botany Bay, this spe¬ 
cies, when full-grown, must be equal in size to the 
common Jabiru, being not less than six or seven 
feet high. The present specimen, however, which is 
preserved in the Leverian Museum, falls short of the 
height just mentioned, scarcely exceeding that of 
four and a half, or five feet. 
