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The only specimen in the British Museum retaining any trace of 

 young plumage has several brown feathers about the head. 



Two specimens in the .Salvin-Godman collection from Colombia 

 have no papillie on the forehead, but merely some transverse corru- 

 gations. Their faces appear also to have been red in life, whereas 

 all the specimens from more southern localities retain a yellow face. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. cf ad. ak. Salta, Argentine Republic, H. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



Aug. 7. 

 h. Imm. sk. Belgrano, Buenos Ayres, H. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



April 14. 



c. c5' ad. sk. Rio de la Plata. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Caifara {J. Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 e,/. Ad. sk. luterior of Colombia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ff. Ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



h. Ad. St. S. America. Purchased. 



14. LOPHOTIBIS. 



T 1 -1 • -r^ Type. 



Lophotibis, Seichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xiv (1852) L. cristata. 



lianfje. Confined to the forests of Eastern and North-eastern 

 Madagascar. 



1. Lophotibis cristata. 



Le Courly hupg de Madagascar, Daubent. Fl. Enl. viii. pi. 841. 

 Le Courlis huppe, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. .3:J (1781). 

 Tantalus cristatus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 51 (1783) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 



1. p. 650 (1788) ; Lath. Lid. Orn.ii. p. 709 (1790) ; Shaio 1^- Nodder, 



]\at. Misc. xvii. pi. 72. 

 Crested Ibis, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 118 (1785). 

 Ibis cristata, Vieill. N. Diet. xvi. p. 19 (1817) ; Wagl. Syst. ^y.,Ibis, 



p. 372, sp. 13 (1827) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. (5 (1863) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1866, p. 425 ; Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1868, p. 1 ; 



Schl. S; Poll. EcaoieJIndtty., Ois. p. 127 (1808) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 



1877, p. 156 -^^l^ntne-Ediriirds .V (iniuAid. 11. N. Mada<i., Ois. ii! ; 

 ^-^JT. 536, pis. 222-225 (ls>2j. y > / 



Eudocimus cristatus, Pucher. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 277. 

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



lii. p. 40, no. 10230 (1871) ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 68. 

 Bostrychia cristata, Reichenb. Grail. Taf. 83. fig. 637 (1851). 

 Lophotibis cristatus, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 154 (f855) ; Hartl. Faun. 



Maday. p. 76 (1861) ; Roch cj- E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 171 (Foule 



Pomt) ; E. Neict. t. c. p. 457 (Tranomaro) ; A. Newt. P. Z. S. 1865, 



p. 837 ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 499 ; Sartl. Vdy. Madag. p. 318 

 ■^7)KSibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 117. ^ 



Adult female. General colour above chestnut or cinnamon-brown ; 

 wings entirely white, except the innermost secondaries, which are 

 like the back ; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black, 

 ■with a slight purplish gloss : head with a fine drooping crest, the 

 central feathers of which are sandy buff, the lateral ones glossy steel 

 or purplish blue like the sides of the neck ; sides of face bare ; cheeks 

 and throat blackish, with a few steel-green feathers on the latter; 

 remainder of under surface of body from the fore-neck downwards' 

 dull cinnamon, lighter on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and 



