9. LEPTOPTII.US. 



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Hah. Central and Southern India and Cej'lon ; eastward through 

 the Burmese Provinces to Southern China and Hainan, and south to 

 Malacca, Java, Sumati'a and Borneo. 



3. Leptoptilus crumeniferus. 



Gigantic Crane, Lnfh. Gen. S'l/n. iii. pt. 1, p. 45 (178-5, pt.). 



Ardea dubia (pt.), G7n. SysL^Nat. i. p. 624 (1788). 



Ciconia argala (nee Lath.). Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 301 (1824: 

 Senegal; Eiver Nile); Wagl. Syst. Av., Ciconia, sp. 2, p. 1.36 

 (1827). 



Ciconia marabou (wee Tetmn.), Denham, Sf Clapperton, Travels in 

 Africa, ii. App. p. 203 (1826) ; Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 418 

 (1868). 



Ciconia crumeuifera, Cuv. Miis. Paris, teste Less. Traite d'Orn. 

 p. 585 (1831). 



Leptoptilos crumenifera. Less. Traite d^Orn. p. 585 (1831) ; Gray. 

 List Grail. Brit. Mus. p 89 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 561 

 (1848) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. xciv. hg. 448 (1848) ; Hartl. Orn. 

 W.-Afr. p. 228 (1857 : Gambia ; Guinea); Cass. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philad. 1859, p. 173 (Camma R.) ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 333 

 (Zambesi) ; Layard, B. S. Africa, p. 31t> (1867) ; Marno, Zool. 

 Garten, 1868, p. 242 (N.E. Africa); Gurnet/, Ibis, 1868, p. 259 

 (Transvaal); Finsch 8f Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. -p. 725 (1870); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 36, no. 10194 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. 

 B. Dam. Ld. p. 282 (1872: Ondontra, Damara-land ; Lake 

 N'garai); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 1114 (1873); Garrod. 

 P. Z.S. 1873, pp. 4()7, 637 (anatomv); Antin. Sf Salrad. T'ia(/y. 

 Bogos, p. 151 (1873: Bu-ka) : Garrod, P. Z. .V. 1874. p. 250 

 (anatomy) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 164; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1874, 



