326 cicoNiiD^. 



s. Skeleton. India. Zoological Society. 



a' . Skeleton. Sultanpur, July 18. India Museum. 



V . Various bones. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



c'-f. Skulls. India. 



2. Pseudotantalus cinereus. 



Tantalus cinereus, Maffles, Trmis. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 327 (1822 : 

 Sumatra) ; Reiclmi. J. f. O. 1877, p. 162. 



Tantalus lacteus, Temm. PL Col. v. pi. 352 (1825: Java); 

 Waffl. S'l/st. Av. Tantalus, sp. 4, p. 132 (1827) ; Less. Traite 

 (J'Oni. p. 582 (1831 : Java) ; Grmj, Gen. B. iii. p. 564 (1847) ; 

 Reichenb. Grail, tab. Ixxxv. fig. 517 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Soc. p. 275 (1849) ; Licht. Nomencl. Mus.Berol. p. 90 (1854: 

 Java) : Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconiae, p. 18 (1864 : Java) ; Jcrd. 

 B. Ind. iii. p. 763 (1864); Blyth, Lbis, 1867, p. 173 (Siam) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 38, no. 10209 (1871) ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 358 

 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 71 (1879 : Malacca) ; Nickohon, 

 Ibis, 1883, p. 257 (Sumatra). 



Tantalus ibis, var., Baffles, torn. cit. p. 327 (Sumatra). 



Pseudotantalus lacteus, Ridgic, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mns. v. p. 551 

 (1883). 



Adult. General colour above pure white, Avitliout anj- pinkish 

 tinge anywhere ; the whole of the wing-coverts, as well as the inner- 

 most secondaries, pure white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black ; tail-feathers black with a slight greenish gloss ; 

 feathers of the head and neck all round pure white, as well as the 

 entire under surface of the body and the under wing-tovcrts and 

 axillaries : " bill with yellow markings and blotches ; point of upper 

 and lower mandible pale white ; eye-wattle grey ; occiput grey ; 

 iris greyish brown " (//. 0. Forbes) Total length '38 inches, culmen 

 10-8, wing 19-8, tail G-6, tarsus 8-9. 



Toting female. Erown or ashy above ; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts white ; lesser and median wing-coverts brown, 

 with white edges, the greater series pale ashy, edged with white ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail black ; head and 

 neck all round dark brown, with longitudinal centres of paler brown ; 

 remainder of under surface of body light grey, white on the abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts : " bill and feet greenish grey ; iris 

 dark grey "(if. 0. Forhes). 



This is a decidedly smaller species than P. leticoceplwlus, and can 

 be thus distinguished at all ages. A young male, according to 

 Dr. Forbes, had " the bill marked and blotched near the base with 

 yellow, the point of the lower mandible white ; feet grey ; bare- 

 part of head grey, the region of the eye also; iris greyish brown." 



Hub. Malayan Peninsula to Java and Sumatra. 



«, b, c. Ad. et Penang {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



imm. sk. 



d, e. c? ad. sk. Acheen, Sumatra ( H'. Dawsow). Hume Coll. 



/. 2 V^^- sk- Oelak Tandiug, Sindang, F. Nicholson, Esq. 

 Sumatra, Oct. 9 {H. O [P.]. 



Forbes). 



