298 cicoNiiD^. 



S. America) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 304 (1871 : Irisanga ; Cai9ara ; 

 Mattoprosso; Forte do Rio Bianco) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 35, 

 no. 10185 (1871) ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 126 (1873) ; 

 Durnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 162 (Buenos Ayres) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 189, 

 1878,' p. 399 (Chupat Valley, Oct. ; mouth of Sengel, Nov.) ; Scl. 

 P. Z. a. 1878, p. 633 ; Gibson, Ibis, 1879, p. 4] 5 (Cape San Antonio, 

 breeding) ; id. Ibis, 1880, p. 153 ; Barrows, Auk, i. p. 271 (1884 : 

 Entrerios) ; Gibson, Ibis, 188o, p. 282 (Uruguay); Salvin, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 171 (British Guiana) ; Oust. Miss. Hci. Cap Horn, Ois. 

 pp. 299, 330 (1891). 



Ciconia jaburu, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 71, pi. Ixxxix. (1825). 



Ciconia pillus, Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1843, p. 116 (Colchagua, Chili) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 561 (1848). 



Ciconia dicrura, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 169. 



Euxenura maguari, Ridgiv. Bull. U.S. Geol. Shirv. iv. p. 249 (1878) ; 

 Baird, Brewer, i^ Ridyiv. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 77 (1884) ; 

 Scl. i^ Huds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 106 (1889) ; James, Neio List 

 Chilian B. p. 8 (1892) ; Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1892, p. 145 (Pilco- 

 mayo) ; Holland, t. c. p. 205 (Argentine Kepublic, breeding in 

 October) ; Reed, Ibis, 1893, p. 596 (Chili) ; Aplin, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 199 (Uruguay) ; Graham Kerr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vi. p. ix 

 (1896: Paraguay). 



Adult. General colour above white, including the whole of the 

 wing-coverts except the greater series, which with the scapulars, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers are black 

 glossed with bronzy green and purplish ; the tail forked and ex- 

 ceeded in tbe middle by the long under tail-coverts, which are 

 stiffened and take the form of rectrices ; head and neck all round 

 and underparts white, including the under wing-coverts and 

 axillarics ; the feathers over the crop lengthened and with the webs 

 dissociated : " legs and feet blood-red ; bill lead-grey " (0. V. Aplin) ; 

 "iris pale yellow" {T. Bridges). Total length about 45 inches, 

 culmen 8-2, wing 21'5, tail 9, tarsus 9'1. 



Immature ? The specimen from Chili {Bridges) agrees with the 

 one from British Guiana, but the other Chilian bird has blackish 

 under wing-coverts and the marginal wing-coverts also black. 

 Although the specimen appears to be adult, I fancy the above must 

 be the remains of immature plumage. Total length 37 inches, 

 culmen 8'3, wing 21"8, tail 8'6, tarsus 9'6. 



Hah. From British Guiana to Brazil and Chili. 



a. Ad. sk. British Guiana. Sir 11. Schomburgk 



[C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Colchagua, Chili. T. Bridges, Esq. [C], 



c. Imm. sk. Chili (IVeisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Skeleton. Chili. Purchased. 



4. CICONIA. 



Type. 



Ciconia, Briss. Orn. v. p. 361 (1760) C. ciconia, 



Melanopelargus, J?e('c^e?i6. Av. Syst. Nat.-p. xvi (1852-53). C. nigra. 



Ranqe. The Palaearctic, Ethiopian, and Indian Kegions, but not 

 reaching to the Australian Ilegion. 



