294 cicoNiiD^. 



f. Ad. sk. Kokai, Bogos-land (4000 feet), W. T. Blanford, Esq, 



Aug. 9. [C.]. 



g. Ad.sk Lahej, Aden, March 18. Colonel Yerbury [P.], 

 h. Ad. sk. Kavirondo, British East Africa, Dr. W. T. Ansorge 



Jan. 4. _ [C.]. 



i. 5 ad. sk. Humbe, Cunene River, April Shelley Coll. 



{Anchieta). 

 k. 2 ad. sk. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Jan. 8 Gurney Coll. 



{T. Ay res). 



I. Ad. sk. Kingwillamstown. Major Treveyan [P.]. 



m. (S ad. sk. South Africa. Tweeddale Coll. 



n. Sternum & Abyssinia. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



pectoral girdle. [C.]. 



2. DISSURA. ^ 



Type. 



Dissoura, Cab. Verh. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 

 Preuss. Staats-Anzeiffer, Beilage i. Sept. 1850, 

 p. 1484 {teste Reichenow) D. episcopus. 



Diplocercus, Blyth (ubi?), teste Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 737 

 (1864). 



Range. The whole of the Ethiopian Region, Indian Peninsula and 

 Ceylon to the Burmese countries and Cochin China, and south to the 

 Indo-Malayan Islands and Celebes. 



1. Dissura episcopus. 



Heron de la Cote de Coromandel, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 906. 

 Le Heron Violet, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 370(1780 : Coromandel 



Coast). 

 Ardea episcopus, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 54 (1783). 

 Violet Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 97 (1785 : Coromandel 



Coast). 

 Ardea leucocephala, Gm. Syst. Ant. i. p. 642 (1788 : Coromandel 



Coast). 

 Ciconia leucocephala, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 188 (1821) 



Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 159 (Deccan) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^c. 



Nepal pres. IToo'^s. p. 135 (1846 : Nepal); Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. 



As. Soc. p. 277 (1849 : Calcutta) ; Layard, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. 



Hist. xiv. p. 114 (1854) ; Licht. Noinencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 90 



(1854) ; Burgess, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 72 (Deccan) ; Hengl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 60 (1856) ■,Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 227 (1857) ; Adams. 



P. Z. S. 1858, p. 508 (Poona) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1869, p. 248 (Natal) 



Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1859, p. 173 (Camma R.) 



Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 270; L-hy, Ibis, 1861, p. 244 (Oudh) 



Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 101 (1864) ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 737 



(1864) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconise, p. 9 (1864) ; Laijard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 315 (1867) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 397 (Manbhum) ; 



Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 267 (1884) ; Seebohn, Ibis, 1889, 



p. 100; Jesse, Ibis, 1897, p. 561 (Lucknow, July, breeding). 

 Ciconia umbellata, Wagl. Si/st. Av., Ciconia, sp. 11, p. 140 (1827) ;■ 



Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 580 (1831). 

 Ciconia leucocephala vel biclavata, Hodgs. Icon. hied, in Brit. Mus., 



Grail, pis. 69-71 ; id. in Gray's Zuol. Misc. p. 86 (1844). 

 Ciconia bicaudata, Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. xvii. p. 304 (1848). 

 Ciconia episcopus. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 561 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



