2. PLATIBIS. 51 



(Japan) ; Stejn. Froc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 4, 281 (1887) ; Offihie 

 Grtmt, Ibis, 1889, p. 54, pi. i. figs. 3, 3 a, ^- 6; Olphe-Galliard,Contr, 

 Faun. Eur. Occid. fasc. xv, p. 467, note (1891) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, 

 pp. 327, 494 (Shanghai, Nov.) ; De la Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 490 

 (Foochow; Swatow). 



Platalea inaioi-, part., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconii, p. 21 (1865) ; 

 Grai/, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 37, no. 1020U (1871). 



Platalea japonica, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 159. 



Adult male. Entirely white, and similar to P. leuterodia, with 

 a small but full nuchal crest ; hare forehead black, the bare skin 

 extending just behind the eye and occupying the sides of the face, 

 fore parts of cheeks, and upper throat, on which the white feathers 

 impinge in a triangular form in the centre ; a yellow spot in front 

 of the eye : " bill slate-colour, transversely barred with black, the 

 bars broken and disconnected on the spatule ; apical edge black, 

 succeeded by a patch and scattered spots of orange-ochre over the 

 spatule, which is also freckled with light slate-colour ; inside of 

 mouth deep indigo-black : inside of nostrils ochreous ; bare skin of 

 face black, with a bright yellow-ochre patch before the eye, 

 extending over the under-lid, and a thin line over the upper lid ; 

 legs purplish black ; iris blood-red " {R. SwinJwe). Total length 

 27 inches, culmen 7'2, wing 14'6, tail 4-2, tarsus 4-75. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male : " bill flesh-coloured, longitu- 

 dinally streaked and speckled with blackish, and mottled and 

 freckled with slate-colour, chiefly about the spatule, the former 

 being slate-colour ; bare skin of face dull purplish brown ; feet 

 purplish black ; iris yellowish brown " {R. Swinhoe). Total length 

 26 inches, culmen 7'3, wing 14, tail 4, tarsus 4-7. 



Young. Difl'ers from the adults in having a more yellowish bill, 

 and blackish shaft-stripes to the quills, the outer primaries blackish 

 at the ends of the outer webs. 



Hah. From Corea and Japan to Pokien and Swatow in China; 

 Formosa. 



a,b.(S2 ^^- ^^- Tamsui, Formosa, March 17 Seebohm Coll. 

 (R. Swinhoe). 



c. Juv. sk. Fokien, China. Gould Coll. 



d, e. Sternum of Formosa. R. Swinhoe, Esq. 

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2. PLATIBIS. 



Type. 

 Platibis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 149 (1855) P. flavipes. 



Range. Australia. 



1. Platibis flavipes. 



Platalea flavipes, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 106 ; id. Si/n, B. Austr. 

 pt. iv, App. p. 7 (1838) ; id. B. Austr. vi. pi. 49 ("l842) ; Gru,/, 

 Li-sf. Gndl. Brit. Mus. p. 87 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 559 (1847J ; 

 Reichenb. T'dff. Neulwll. Tp. 26 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. 

 Berol. p. 90 (1854) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconii, p. 24 (1864) ; 



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