. A general synopsis of birds . viii. p. 45. Acacalotl, Raii Syn. p. 104. , or Water Raven, V/ill. Orn. p. 296, Description. T HIS is a large fpecies, being three feet in length. Thebill eight inches, and blueifh: irides red : between the billand eyes, and-round them, bare and reddifh: the head and neckcovered with dufky, white, and green feathers, with a few yel-low ones intermixed: back and rump black, gloried with greenand purple : breaft and belly brown, with a little mixture of red :the wing coverts are green ; and the quills and tail green bronzedwith copper: legs
. A general synopsis of birds . viii. p. 45. Acacalotl, Raii Syn. p. 104. , or Water Raven, V/ill. Orn. p. 296, Description. T HIS is a large fpecies, being three feet in length. Thebill eight inches, and blueifh: irides red : between the billand eyes, and-round them, bare and reddifh: the head and neckcovered with dufky, white, and green feathers, with a few yel-low ones intermixed: back and rump black, gloried with greenand purple : breaft and belly brown, with a little mixture of red :the wing coverts are green ; and the quills and tail green bronzedwith copper: legs This inhabits Mexico, frequenting the lakes, and feeding on fijh: it breeds in thofe places, and is accounted pretty good,food. .. 5- BLACK-FACED I. CIZE 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 reddifh: the whole face, quite beyond the eyes, is bare of feathers, pi • JA)fr/r/c /need tS/f/o ■ IBIS. 109 feathers, black, and warty, particularly round the eyelids : un-der the chin hangs a loofe, wrinkled, bare fkin, forming a pouch :the crown of the head is deep fulvous yellow, and the feathersat the back part longifti : the reft of the neck and breaft paleyellow : the back and fcapulars are cinereous, margined withbrown : acrofs the breaft a band of the fame : the middle of thefeathers of the back brown : the wing coverts blueifh afh-colour,margined with brown: the quills, fides, thighs, vent, and tail,are greenifh black ; the laft confifts of twelve feathers, and isrounded in fhape : the legs feven inches long, rough, naked buta little way above the knee, and red: claws black. This fpecies was found by Dr. Forjter on New Tears I/land, Place, near Staten Land*. It builds the neft in inacceffible places inthe The fpecimen is in the collection of Sir Jo/.Banks. Le grand Courlis de Cayenne, Buf. Oif. viii. p.
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