9. LEPTOPTILUS, 315 



Adult. General colour above white, with a satiny gloss or a 

 greyish shade under certain lights ; under surface a little duller : 

 " bill and feet black ; iris brown " (Stol-mann). Total length 

 50 inches, culmen 12-5, wing 24, tail 7'8, tarsus 12. 



Hah. South America, ranging into Central America. 



a. Ad. st. South America, Zoological Society. 



b. Ad. sk. South America. India Museum. 



c. Ad. sk. South America. Salvin-Gcdman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Brazil. Lieut. Maw [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Para. R. Graliam, Esq. [P.]. 



f. c? ad. sk. Huamachal, Guatemala, Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



Feb. (0. S.). 



9. LEPTOPTILUS. 



Leptoptilos, Lesson, Traite d'Orti. p. 58-3 (18.31) .... L. javanicus. 



Argala, Hodgs. hid. Review, ii. p. 563 (1838) L. dubius. 



Cranopelargus, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. i. p. 417 (1842) L. javanicus. 

 Osteorophea, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 8G 



(1844) L. dubius. 



Range. Africa. India, extending to the Indo-Malayan Sub- 

 region. 



Key to the Sj^ecies. 



a. Larger: under tail-coverts silky white, with 



greyish-black streaks near the tips ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the gi-eater series aud 

 secondaries hoary grey, but without white 

 margins dubius, p. 315. 



b. Smaller : under tail-coverts pure white. 



a'. Greater wing-coverts glossed with gi-een 



like the rest of the wing, the scapulars and 



inner secondaries edged ^^'ith white javanicus, p. 317. 



v. Greater wing-coverts edged with white 



like the secondaries ciumenifei~us, p. 319. 



1. Leptoptilus dubius. 



Gigantic Crane, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 45 (1785 : India & 



Africa). 

 Ardea dubia, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 624 (1788). 

 Ardea argala, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 676 (1790). 

 Ciconia marabou, 7V;«j«. PI. Col. v. pi. 300 (1824) ; IVagl. Si/st. Ao., 



Ciconia, sp. 1, p. 135 (1827). 

 Leptoptilos marabou. Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 538 (1831). 

 Ciconia dubia, Sundev. Phys. Siillsk. Tidskr. 1838, p. 193 (Calcutta). 

 Argala migratoria, Hodgs. Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 563. 

 Ciconia uudifrons, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 200, no. 317 (1840 : 



Deccan). 

 Ciconia argala, Jerd. to7n. cit. p. 200, no. 316 (Jaulnah). 

 Osteorophea imiuigratoria, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail. 



pis. 74, 75, no. 713 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844). 

 Leptoptilus argala. Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 89 (1844 : India j 



Northern India; Nepal); id. Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nejxd pres. Hodgs. 



