10 IBIDIDiE. 



Ibis leucon, pt., Less. Cotnjjl. Buff. Ois. p. 691 (1838). 



Ibis strictipennis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 106; Bp. Vonsp. ii. p. lol 

 (1855) ; id. C. R. xl. p. 724 (1856) ; Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, Ibis, 

 p. 14 (1863 : Ceram) ; Eosenb. J.f. 0. 1804, p. 136 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 lii. p. 769 (1864) ; Fhisch, Neu-Guinea, p. 182 (1865) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1870, p. 663 ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 467, 638 ; Scl. Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 361 ; D' Albert. Ann. Mus. Ge7iov. x. p. 20 (1877) ; Salvad. t. c. 

 p. 165 (Sorono) ; Ramsay. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 190 

 (1876 : New South Wales; N. Australia; Queensland; Victoria) ; 

 Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 324 (1878-79) ; U Albert. ^- Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. xiv. p. 146 (1879) ; Lerjye, B. Ceylon, p. 1107, 

 note (1880). 



Threskiornis strictipennis, Gould, B.Austr. vi. pi. 46 (1848) ; Reichenb. 

 Grallatores, Taf. cxlii. figs. 1007-1008 (1848; ; id. Voy. Neuholl. 

 p. 23 (1850) ; Mucgill. Narr. Voy. ' Ratt/es7iake,' ii. p. 358 

 (1852); Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 197; id. Cat. B. Neio Guinea, 

 p. 02 (1859) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 284 (1865) ; Ramsay, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 86 (Port Denison) ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 600 (Clarence 

 River); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 174, 1870, p. 176; Biggies, Orn. 

 Austr. ii. pi. 102 (1877) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. 

 p. 385 (1876), ii. p. 198 (1877) ; zd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 340 (Fitzroy 

 Eiver ; Herbert River) ; id. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 172 

 (1887: Derby, N.W. Australia); id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 

 (1888) ; Co.v ^ Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 420 

 (1890: Mudgee District); North, Rec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 118 

 (1891) ; Campbell, Vict. Nat. 1891, pp. 73, 74. 



Gerouticus melauocepbalus, pt., Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847). 



Geronticus strictipennis. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. 

 B. iii. p. 40, no. 10224 (1871). 



Ibis stricticollis {err.), Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 768 (1864). 



Ibis ffithiopica, pt., Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 485. 



Adult. Everywhere white, including the tail and wings ; inner 

 secondaries mottled irregularly with purplish black, this mottling 

 vanishing towards the innermost secondaries, which have the webs 

 disconnected and entirely purplish black ; the primaries broadly 

 tipped with blue-black, the bulk of the secondaries pure white ; on 

 the fore-neck some elongated, narrow, drooping plumes : " head 

 and upper halt' of the neck bare, and, with the bill, of a deep slaty 

 black ; back of the head and neck crossed by ten narrow distinct 

 bands of rose-pink, and on the crown of the head a series of oval 

 spots, arranged in the form of a star, of the same colour ; thighs 

 and knees deep purple ; tarsi and feet light purple ; iris dark 

 brown " (J. Gould). Total length 80 inches, culmen I'd, wing 14-5, 

 tail 5*1, tarsus 4*3. 



" I have observed considerable differences in the transverse rose- 

 pink markings at the back of the neck ; in some specimens they are 

 very conspicuous, while in others they are scarcely apparent " 

 {^G-ould). 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller in size (Gould). 



Young birds, for the first, and perhaps for the second, year of 

 their existence, have that part of the neck which is bare in the 

 adult partially clothed with white feathers like the rest of the body 

 (Gould). 



