9. LEPT0PT1LT7S. 317 



yellowish white ; eyelids plumbeous, the edges pink ; legs and toes 

 brown, the edges of the reticulations white; claws black "' ( A"'. W. 

 Oates). Total length 00 inches, culmen 12, wing 82, tail 12-"), 

 tarsus 13. 



Youuff hirds. Browner than the adults, and ha\'ing the band 

 on the greater coverts brown instead of grey, with whitish edgings 

 to the inner webs ; the lores and face are not carunculated, and the 

 back of the head and nape have a good many hairs and scattered 

 black plumes ; the gular pouch is very small and has a tuft of blackish 

 hairs at the end : " bare skin of head, neck, and pouch pale flesh- 

 colour spotted with black ; chin and throat yeUow, covered all over 

 with long hairs ; bill dirty yellow ; legs and feet black ; iris 

 brown" (C. T. Binghnm). 



The dimensions of this species vary very much, especially as 

 regards the length of the tarsus, and in young birds, where the 

 characters which distinguish the adult are not always developed, 

 it is by no means easy to tell the species. Thus in an adult bird 

 from Cochin China with the grey band on the wing, showing that 

 it is true L. duhius, the culmen is only 10'2 inches and the tarsus 

 barely 10 inches in length. 



Hah. Central and Northern India, east to the Burmese Provinces 

 and Cochin China. 



«. Ad. st. India. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. India. Purchased, 



e. cJimm.sk. Delhi, Se^t. 18 (C. T. BinffJuon). Hume Coll. 



d. Imm. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



(Type of Osteorojjhea immigratoria.) 



e. Imm. sk. Bhotan Doars, Jan. (i. J/fl?i(Ze//t). Hume Coll. 

 f-i. S ad. et Calcutta, Feb., Sept. Hume Coll. 



juv. sk. 

 k. Juv. sk. Tonghoo, Burma, Aug. 13 {E. G. Tweeddale Coll. 



W. R.). 

 I. Ad. sk. Cochin China. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



m. Skeleton. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



2. LeptoptUus javanicus. 



Ciconia javanica, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc.id\i. p. 188 (1821). 

 Ardea duhia {nee Gm.), Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 325 (1822). 

 Ardea criuita, Buch. Hamilton, MSS. 

 Ciconia capillata, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 312 (1824 : Java & Sumatra) ; 



Wngl. Si/sf. Av., Ciconia, sp. 3, p. 136 (1827). 

 Le])toptilos capillata, Zf'ss. TraitcfrOrn.j). o8i (1831 : Java); LichK 



Nomencl. Av. Mas. Bcrol. p. 90 (1854 : East India). 

 Ciconia nudifrons, McClelland, Ind. Rev. 1838, p. 512. 

 Ciconia cristata, McClelland, torn. cit. p. 512. 

 Ciconia calva, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 201, no. 318 (1840). 

 Leptoptilus javanicus, Gray, Lid Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 89 (1844: 



Indian Archipelago) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 561 (1848) ; Reichenh. 



Grail, tab. xciv. fig. 440 (1848) ; Bli/th, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 277 (1849 : Calcutta) ; id. Ibis, 1861, p. 269 ; Reinh. Ibis, 1862, 



p. 170; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 732 (1864: Malabai- Coast and Assam 



