60 PLATALEID^. 



Platalea nudifrons, Less. Traite, p. 579 (1831 : ex Cuv. Mus. Paris) ; 



Pucher. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 376. 

 Platalea leucorodia («ec Z.), Desjardins, P. Z. S. 1832, p. Ill ; 



Ckapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 419 (1868 : Lake Ngami). 

 Leucerodia nudifroas, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xvi (1852). 

 Platalea luzoniensis, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 148 (1855). 



Adult female. Pure white above and below, with a full nucbal 

 crest. The amount of bare skin on the throat is aboat the same as 

 in P. leucerodia, but there is decidedly a larger bare patch on the 

 forehead, the whole region of the eye is bare, and the feathers on 

 the sides of the face do not extend further forward than the line 

 of the hinder part of the eye ; the bill and feet (in skin) are reddish : 

 " fore part of the head bare and of a bright vermilion " (E, L. 

 Layard) ; " forehead and chin naked and smooth, the former bright 

 red, merging on the sides of the gape into yellow, which is also the 

 colour of the chin ; upper mandible livid, except the base and a 

 narrow space along the edges, which are reddish ; lower mandible 

 slaty-black, with small yellow spots and yellow edges : feet and 

 toes bright scarlet" (C. J. Andersmn) ; " iris white or pearly grey" 

 {Heuylin). Total length 28 inches, culmen 7, wing 14*8, tail 5-1, 

 tarsus 5' 4. 



Young. Distinguished from the adult by the blackish shafts to 

 the quiLs and primary-coverts, the primaries blackish brown at the 

 tips and along the outer webs of the outer ones ; the bare face 

 light yellow and the bill dull yellowish : " bill yellowish flesh- 

 colour, the lower mandible dusky reddish, the forehead and bare 

 face tinged with pale violet; the feet dusky with a fleshy tinge; 

 iris umber-brown " {Emiii Pai^Jia). 



Another young bird, collected by Mr. Monteiro in Benguela, has 

 the whole of the outer primaries brown, all the quills, and even the 

 secondaries and some of the greater coverts, with dark brown 

 shafts ; crown streaked with blackish brown, especially on the fore- 

 head : bill dusky yellowish horn-colour (in skin); feet blackish. 



Hah. Africa generally, and Madagascar. 



a. Ad. at. Gambia. Sir Edward Sabine 



[P.]. 



b, f. Ad. sk. Gambia. Governor Kendall 



d. $ ad.sk. Angolala, Shoa (-S^rir. 77f//7-(s). India Museum. 



e. cj juv. sk. Lain, Equatorial Africa, Jan. Erain Pasha [P.]. 



/. 5 ad.sk Miioi River, Transvaal {T. Gurney Coll. 



Ayreg). 

 g. Juv. sk. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



i. Juv. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



4. Platalea minor. 



Platalea trinor, Temm. Sf Schl Faun. Jajion., Ai'es, p. 120, pi. 76 

 (1850) ; Up. Consp. n. p. 148 (1855); Hzvm/i. Ibis, 1864, p. 364; 

 Blakist. ^ Prycr, Ibis, 1878, p. 223 ; :Seeb. Ibis, 1879, p. 27 



