302 CICONIID^, 



female shot by Dr, Scully in Yarkand in July, the culmen only 

 measures 5 inches, and the greater coverts have their outer webs 

 powdered with grey like the secondaries. Tliis may be a freshly- 

 moulted young bird, as the quills and scapulars are black with the 

 usual purple and greenish gloss of the adults. The soft parts were 

 as follows : — " Bill dull yellowish-orange, dusky in parts ; bare 

 skin of chin (pouoh) dusky orange ; orbital skin dusky ; legs and 

 feet pale yellowish, becoming orange in parts ; claws yellowish 

 horny ; iris greenish brown." 



Hah. Europe, not extending to the far North, but as far East as 

 Central Asia, and wintering in Africa and Northern India. 



a. Ad. st. Europe. Old Coll. 



b. Imm. sk. Europe. Old Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. South Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Egypt. G. Turnbull, Esq. 



[P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Upper Egypt. Shelley Coll. 



/ Ad.sk. Ramaqueb.in R., Matabele-land, W. E. «& C. G. Oates, 



Nov. 15 (i^ Oates). Esqrs. [P.], 



<;. Ad. sk. Transvaal. Dr. R. B. Sharpe [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Mount Lebanon. S. Baroody, E.sq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Muscat Arabia, Aug. 25, Sept. 7. Surgeon-Col. Jayakar 



[P.]. 



m, n. (S ad. et Yarkand, July {J. Scully). Hume Coll. 



2 imrn. sk. 



o. S ad. sk. Delhi, Oct. 3 (C. T. Bingham). Hume Coll. 



p, q. Ad. sk. Etawah, March. Iliune Coll. 



r, s, t Ad. sk. Oudh, Dec. to March. ILuue Coll. 



u. Skull. South Germany. Dr. Giinther [C.]. 



V. Skeleton Europe. Purchased. 



(skull im- 



perlect). 



2. Ciconia boyciana. 



Ciconia alba [iiec Linn.), Schvenck, liei.s. Amin-l., Vog. p. 454 (1860). 



Ciconia boyciana, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 513 (Japan) ; Scl. op. cit. 

 1874, pp. 2, 306, pi. i.; Dyb. J.f. O. 1875, p. 256; Tacz. Bull. 

 Soc. Zuol. France, i. p. 257 (18/6); David i^ Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 450 (1877); Prjev. in Hotvlei/s Orn. Misc. ni. p. 50 (1878: 

 Lake H;ujka, .April, breeding); Blakist. 8^ Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 224 (Tokio) ; iid. Trans. Soc. Jap. viii. p. 200 (1880) ; iid. List 

 B. Jap. p. 121 (1882) ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. p. 118 (1884) ; 

 Blnkid. Amended List B. Jap. p. 24 (1884); Steyii. Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. X. p. 286 (1887 : Fusan, Corea, Dec.) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 

 1887, p. till (Corea, iMaich) ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 468; Seebohm, 

 B. Japan. Emp. p. 228 (1890) ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. hup. Sci. St. 

 Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 073 (1893). 



Ad'ilt. Similar to C. ciconia and pure white above and below ; 

 scapulars, greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black, glossed with steel-gL-een and purplish copper ; the 

 quills hoary grey for the greater part of the outer webs, ibis being 

 less distinct on the inner primaries and absent on the secondaries ; 

 tail white ; bead, neck, and entire under surface of body pure 



