314 



CICONIID^. 



crimson " {T. Ayres). Total length 65 inches, culmen 12'6, wing 27, 

 tail 10-8, tarsus 15. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being browner where the old 

 bird is black ; the white of the mantle and chest washed with 

 brown. 



Hah. Africa. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. Gambia. Governor Rendall 



sk. [P.]. 



c. Ad. (head only). River Loge, Ambriz, Angola Monteiro CoU. 



{J. J. M.). 



d. $ ad. sk. Rustenberg, Transvaal, April 2 Guruey Coll. 



( W. Lucas). 



e. Juv. sk. East Africa. Gapt. Wharton [P.]. 

 /".Ad. (head only). Shoa. (Sir W. C. Harris). India Museum. 

 g,h. Skulls. Gambia. Purchased. 



8. MYCTERIA. 



Type. 

 Mycteria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 232 (1766) M. americana. 



Range, Confined to South America. 



1. Mycteria americana. 



La Cigogne de la Guiane, Briss. Orn. v. p. 373 (1760). 



Mycteria americana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 232, pt. (1766) ; Gm. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 616 (1788) ; Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. v. p. 32 

 (1798) ; id. ^ Nodder, Nat. Misc. pi. 469 ; Vieill. N. Diet. 

 d'Bist. Nat. xvi. p. 437 (1817) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 583 

 (1831); Neuwied, Beitr. Natt/ry. Bras. iv. p. 675 (1832); Gray, 

 List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 89 (1844) ; Tsch. i^- Cab. Faun. Peruan., 

 Aves, pp. 50, 298 (1845-46) ; Uartl. hid. Azara, p. 22 (1847) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 562 (^1848) ; Cab. in Schomb. Beis. Guiana, iii. 

 p. 751 (1848); Reichenb. Grail, tab. xciv. tig. 443 (1850); Bp. 

 Consp. Av. ii. p. 107 (1855) ; Des 3Ltrs in Casteln. Exped. 

 Amer. Sud, p. 79 (1855 : Araguav) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-BaSf 

 Ciconife, p. 11 (1864); Salvin, Ibis,' 1865, p. 197, 1866, p. 196 

 (Guatemala) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 35, no. 10190 (1871) ; Pelz. 

 Orn. Bras. pp. 305, 456 (1871: Parana; Cuyaba; Borba) ; 

 Scl. L^- Salv. Nonwncl. Av. Neotr. p. 126 (1873) ; Beichen. J.f. O. 

 1877, pp. 166, 276 ; Buird, Brewer, i<f Kidyiv. Water-Birds 

 N. Amer. i. p. 79, cum tig. (1884) ; Coves, Keij N. Amer. B. 2nd 

 ed. p. 653 (1884) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 411 (1886) ; Saliin, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 171 (British Guiana); Berlepsch, J.f. O. 1887, p. 32 

 (Pilcomayo) ; Ridyw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 126 (1887) ; Scl. ^ 

 Muds. Aryent. Orn. ii. p. 106 (1889) ; Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 145 (Kio Parana; Rio Pavaguay ; Rio Pilcomayo); A. O. TJ, 

 Checkl. N. Amer. B. p. 69 (1895) ; Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 450 

 (Miravalles, Costa Rica) ; L/oyd, Timehri, (2) ix. p. 223 (1896) ; 

 Graham Kerr, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vi. p. ix, (1896) ; Koenigswaldf 

 J.f. 0. 1897, p. 388. 



Le Jabiru de Cayenne, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 817. 



Le Jabiru, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 280, pi. xiii. (1780). 



American Jabiru, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 22, pi. Ixxv. (1785). 



Baguari de la Collar Roxo, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 117 (1802). 



Ciconia mycteria, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 76 (1823; San Paulo). 



