C h a ra ct er es G e n e r ic i .
R o s tr u m g r a c ile , e lo n g a tum , d e o r sùm c u rv a tum , Tbidis iVz i»ie«»que ro s tris s im ile ; naribus
la te r a lib u s , lo iig itu d in a lib u s , m em b r a n â p e r to tam lo iig itu d io em clausis.
Co rp u s g ra c ile , G ra lla to rum ty p ic o rum fo rm am e x h ib e n s .
A loe s u b e lo n g a tæ , s u b g r a d a tæ ; rem ig ib u s s e c u n d is e t Lertiis æ q u a lib u s longissimis, p r im â p au lò
b re v io ri, coe te ris g r a d a lim d e c re s c e n tib u s .
P e d e s m c d io c re s , t r id a c ty li, H oe m a to p o dm n p e d ib u s sim illim i ; d ig itis in te rn is lib e ris , e x te rn is
m em b r a n à u sq iie ad p o ìlic cm p r im am c o n n e x is , om n ib u s m a rg in a tis ; u n g u ib u s ob tu sis.
Cauda in ed io c ris , æ q u a lis .
T a b . L X X IX .
IB ID O R H Y N C H A STRUTHERS I I .
Ib id , corpore s u p rà colloque in f r o n t e pa lU d è g r is e is ; corpore su b tù s a lb o ; c a p itis ve rtic e , fa c i e
g u ttu r e q u e ìiig r is albo v a r ie g a tis ; to rq u e p e c to r a li su h g ra c ili, a d nucliam e x te n d e n te la iio ri,
tiro p yg io q u e e x tr em o a tr is ; r e c tr ic ib u s m ed iis fu s c o obscure u n d u la tim fa s c ia ti s , p r o p e apicem
nigì-o n o ta tis , la te ra lium p o g o n iis e x te r n is a lb is n ig ro fa s c ia t i s .
L o n g itu d o corporis, 14 u n e .
T hroughout the whole o f our new discoveries in the vast district which has furnished the subject o f tlie
present work, it would be difficult to point out a more interesting species than that before ns, o r one which
has supplied ornithological science with characters more striking and peculiar. It may be observed to form
a union bct«-een two groups generally considered as widely separated from each other ; the body, the general
form, and the legs of the Ibklorhjncha Stnithersii being similar to those of the ILcm/lopus, while the hill is
strictly that o f tho Ibis. We were not so fortnnate as to include the present bird in our own collection from
the Himalaya ; and it is to the kindness of D r. Scoulcr, of tlie Addisonian Museum o f Glasgow,— who received
It trom Mr. Strutlicrs, the gentleman who collected it, and whose name forms its specific a|)pcllatioii, that
we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. Its habits and maimers remain yet to be discovered and
recoi-dcd.
I he forehead, top ot the head, and the tliroat, arc black ; a black hand extends from the sides of tlie mantle
across the cliest ; the neck is pale cinereous ; tlie upper plumage asliy grey ; the tail barred with irregular
lines of black, the outer feathers being white with regular bars, and tipped, as are several o f the succeeding,
with black ; the under surface is wliite ; the beak and tarsi red.
The figure represents the bird of its natural size.
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