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such specimens having the remains of a few very fine white stripes 

 on the face and neck and a few black feathers scattered through the 

 underparts. 



Family CICONIIDAE. 



STORKS. 

 48. DISSOURA EPISCOPUS NEGLECTA (Finsch). 



One female, Toli Toli, December 16, 1914; one male and one fe- 

 Qiale, Tandjong Penjoe, February 17, 1915; one male, Gimpoe, Au- 

 gust 13, 1917. 



The above series, when compared with a male and female from the 

 mainland (Trong and Tenasserim), a male from Mindoro and an 

 unsexed specimen from Mindanao, appears to be slightly smaller and 

 the bills (in the dried skin) differently colored. The bill in the 

 Celebes bird is red for nearly two-thirds of its length from the tip 

 and this color runs back along the culmen considerably further, only 

 the basal third of the bill black, while in the mainland and Philip- 

 pine specimens the bill is black or dusky for nearly its whole length, 

 only the extreme tip and a narrow line along the culmen running 

 back as far as the nostril, being reddish. The purplish gloss to the 

 upper mantle seems to be less extensive in the Celebes bird. The 

 mainland and Philippine specimens seem to be the same, though the 

 specimen from Mindanao has the tip of the bill more extensively red- 

 dish and in this respect approaches the Celebes bird. 



Doctor Finsch^^ in describing D. neglecta gave no definite type 

 locality but simply, cited the range as Java, Sumbawa, Lombok, 

 Celebes, Philippines. Stresemann ^^ in recording it from Bali ques- 

 tioned the two latter localities and for the Philippines correctly so, 

 as I have shown above. It is certain, however, that the Celebes 

 bird is not the same as that from the mainland and until we know 

 the exact locality of the type of D. neglecta and compare typical 

 specimens, I can not do otherwise than place it where the original 

 describer did. 



Dissoura sfojvni is represented in the United States National Mu- 

 seum by specimens from Borneo and E. Sumatra. It is quite a dif- 

 ferent species, smaller than Dissoura episcopus, the bill entirely red 

 in the skin, with numerous other differences. 



The Asiatic specimens of Dissoura episcopus in the United S^^ates 

 National Museum measure as follows : 



^2 Orn. Monats., vol. 12, 1904, p. 94. « Nov. Zool., vol. 20, 1913, p. 332. 



