defcribed, the legs are only eight inches in length, whereas in
P lace and
Manners.
the Scarlet Ibis they are twelve at'leaft; in the firft they do not
reach to the end of the tail, but in the laft much beyond it.
This is met with at Cayenne, but not in numbers; always in
pairs : perches on the decayed trees which float down with the
ftream, in order to fifh, generally at fome diftance from the fea:
and is called by the people at Cayenne, Flammant des Bois. ,
4’
MEXICAN I.
Le Courly varie du Mexique, Brif. Orn. v. p. 333* 7‘
L’Acalot, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 45.
Acacalotl, Bait Syn. p. 104. 5.
Acacalotl, or Water Raven* Will. Orn. p. 296.
Description. r-jn [ft I S is a large fpecies, being three feet in length. The
bill eight inches, and blueifh: irides red : between the bill
and eyes, and round them, bare and reddifh: the head and neck
covered with dufky, white, and green feathers, with a few yellow
ones intermixed: back and rump black, gloffed with green
and purple : breaft and belly brown, with a little mixture of red :
the wing coverts are green ; and the quills and tail green bronzed
Place.
with copper : legs black.
This inhabits Mexico, frequenting the lakes, and feeding on
fijh : it breeds in thofe places, and is-accounted pretty good
food.
BLACK-FACED
I.
PL. LXXIX.
Description.
g I Z E large, not much inferior to the Wood Ibis: length twenty-
eight inches, breadth forty-nine inches and a half. Bill fix
inches, and black: tongue triangular, ciliated at the back part:
irides reddilh: the whole face, quite beyond the eyes, is bare of
feathers,
feathers, black,, and. warty, particularly round the eyelids: under
the chin hangs a loofe, wrinkled, bare fkin, foriping a pouch :
the crown of the head is deep fulvous yellow, and the feathers
at the back part longifh : the reft of the neck and breaft pale
yellow : the back and fcapulars are cinereous, margined with
brown : ‘ acrofs the breaft a band of the fame : the middle of the
feathers of the back brown: the wing coverts btueifh alh-colour,
margined with brown :• the quills, Tides, thighs, vent, and tail,
are greenilh black; the 1 aft confifts of twelve feathers, and is
rounded in lhape: the legs feven inches long, rough, naked but
a little way above the knee, and red: claws black.
This fpecics was found by Dr. Forfier on New Tear’s IJland, Placi.
near Staten Land*. It builds the nett in indcceffible places in
the rocks. The Ipecimen is in the colleftion. of Sir Jof.y
Banks.
Le grand Courtis de Cayenne, Buf. Otf. viii. p. 47. WHITE-NECKCourlis
a Cou blanc, PI. Enl. 976. ED I.
f p H I S is much bigger than the common Curlew, length twenty-
feven inches. Bill black : the head and neck rufous white }
the firft deepeft : between the bill and eyes bare: general colour
of the plumage brown, undulated with grey, and gloffed with
green: the greater wing coverts white : legs red.
Inhabits Cayenne.
Description»
PfcACE.
* See Ferf. Voy. vol. ii. p. 5 21»
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