312 CICONIIDJE. 



the occiput and nape ; under surface pure white, including the 

 under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts, excepting the lowest 

 row of median coverts which forms a large patch of metallic green : 

 " bill black ; gular skin and eyelids dusky purple ; legs and toes 

 coral-red; iris bluish brown" {E. W. Oates). Total length 48 

 inches, culmen 12, wing 22-5, tail 8-5, tarsus 12. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 45 inches, 

 culmen 11-5, wing 21-5, tail 8*5, tarsus 11. 



Toiaif/. Differs from the adult in being duller and more green, 

 with ashy-brown edges to all the feathers of the upper surface ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts white, with a little brown 

 on the rump ; the head and neck brown ; the mantle and lesser wing- 

 coverts brown, with hoary-grey edges and a slight purplish gloss ; 

 the quills white on the inner webs, greenish brown on the outer 

 quills, dusky below with a metallic green gloss ; the under wing- 

 coverts and the primary-coverts brown, as also the lower median 

 coverts. 



Ilab. Indian Peninsula to the Burmese Provinces and the 

 Malayan Peninsula. New Guinea and Northern Australia. 



«, 6. Ad. etjuv.sk. India. Dr. Royle [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. Eohtuck, Punjab, Dec. 28 Hume Coll. 



{A. O. H.). 



d. Ad. sk. Dehra Dhoon, Jan. Hume Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Oudb. Pinwill CoU. 



f. 9, h- (S ad. sk. Futtebgurh, Dec, Jan. Hume Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Assam (McClelland). India Museum. 



I. Ad. sk. Assam. Godwin-Austen 



Coll. 



m. 2 ad. sk. Eaipur, Jan. Hume Coll. 



n. S ad. sk. Lower Pegu, Sept. 15. Oates Coll. 



0, p, q. Ad. et Penang {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



JUV. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. Queenslaud. W. Westgarth, Esq. 



.«, Imm. sk. Queensland. Salvin-Godman CoU. 



t. Skeleton. India. Purchased. 



u. Skeleton. ? Purchased. 



7. EPHIPPIORHYNCHUS. 



Type. 

 Epliippioriiynchus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 106 (ISoo). . E. senegalenais. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis. 



Mycteria seuegalensis, Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. v. p. 35, pi. 3 (1798) ; 

 'Lath. Lid. Orn. Supid. p. 64 (1801) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xvi. p. 440 (1817) : id Gal. Ois. ii. p. 139, pi. 255 (1825) ; Less. 

 Traite d'Orn. p. 583 (1831) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 89 

 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 562 (1848) ; Reichenh. Grail, tab. xciv. 



