GENUS, Ibis, Bonap,
Bill very long, moderately stout, thickened at the base, somewhat square, arched more or less throughout; the upper mandible, with a long lateral groove produced to the tip; nostrils basal, narrow; wings long, the second quill longest, or the third and fourth sub-equal to it; tail short, even, of twelve feathers; tarsus moderate: toes long, hallux resting on the ground; head and neck of the adult devoid of feathers; scapulars and tertials decomposed, lengthened; feathers of the breast elongated; plumage white.
BookTitle:
Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency
Reference:
Barnes, Henry Edwin. Handbook to the birds of the Bombay Presidency, 1885.
Title in Book:
Genus IBIS
Year:
1885
Page No:
390
M_ID:
2094
M_SN:
Threskiornis
Term name:
id:
12126
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