18 IBIDIDJ;. 



Geronticus calvus, Wagler, Ms, 1832, p. 1232 ; Gray, List Grallce 

 Brit. Mus. p. 90 (1S44) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p 5G6 (1847) ; Bp. Comp. 

 ii. p. 153 (1855) ; id. C. R. xl. p. 725 (1855) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 219 (Natal) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 321 (1867 : Caledon ; 

 Eastern Cape Colony) ; Gray, Haml-l. B. iii. p. 39, no. 10218 

 (1891) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 297 (1872: Orange 

 Eiver) ; Pelz. 'ibis, 1873, p. 39 ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 494 ; 

 Btitler, Feilden, ^ Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 424 (Newcastle ; Buffalo 

 Kiver) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 738 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above dark metallic green, with a 

 slight bluish-purple gloss ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 like the back ; tail-feathers dark steel-green ; wings also glossy 

 green like the back, with purplish reflections, the greater number of 

 the median coverts coppery purple, forming a large patch ; head, 

 nape, and throat oare, with a ruff of elongated steel-green feathers, 

 somewhat lanceolate in shape and overhanging the lower throat ; 

 remainder of under surface black, slightly glossed with steel- 

 green and purple ; the sides of the body and axillaries more dis- 

 tinctly glossed with green ; under wing-coverts black, glossed with 

 green, as also the inner lining of quills : " top of head bright red ; 

 bill and feet duller red ; skin of neck and round the eye greenish 

 white" (T. Ayres). Total length 2G inches, culmen 5*2, wing 15, 

 tail 6-6, tarsus 2-7. 



Adnlt female. Similar to the male. Total length 26 inches, 

 culmen 5-35, wing 14-7, tail 7'2, tarsus 2-85. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a,h. c? ^ ad. sk. Zulu-laud (Gordye). Shelley Coll. 



c. Ad. st. Cape. Purchased. 



d. Skeleton. Cape. Purchased. 



8. BOSTRYCHIA. 



Type. 

 Bostrychia, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xiv (1852). . B. caruuculata. 



Range. N.E. Africa. 



1. Bostrychia carunculata. 



Ibis carunculata, Rilpp. Neue Wirb., Viiy. p. 49, Taf xix. (1835-40) ; 

 Des Murs in Lefehvres Voy. Abyss, p. 163 (1845 : Tiijre ; Sem en) ; 

 8chl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. lo (1863) : Finsch, 'Tr. Z. S vii. 

 p. 298 (1870: Seuafe ; Goongoona ; Facado) ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. ii. Abth. i. p. 1139 (1873: Abyssinia, 5000 to 11,000 feet); 

 Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 155. 



Ibis (Harpiprion) carunculata, Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 437 

 (1870 : Senafd ; Lake Ashangi ; Wadela and Dalauta Plateaux). 



Harpiprion carunculatus, Gray, List Gralla; p. 92 (1844: Abys- 

 sinia) ; Rilpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 122 (1845) ; Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. 

 p. 61 (1854). 



Geronticus carunculatu.=!, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 566 (1847) ; id. 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 40, no. 10227 (1871). 



Bostrvchia carunculata, Reichenb. Grallce, Taf. Ixxxiii. fig. 1011 

 (1851) ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 152 (1855) ; id. C. R. xl. p. 725 (1855) ; 

 Blliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 501 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) 

 i. p. 23 (1884: Slioa) ; id. op. cit. vi. p. 317 (1888: Antoto). 



