70 CAElKATiE. 



The humerus is genercally like that of Ciconia, but has a deeper 

 groove on the dorsal aspect between the head and the ulnar tuber- 

 osity, a deeper coraco-humeral groove and subtrochanteric fossa, a 

 sharp ridge overhanging the latter, and a more angulated dclto- 

 pectoral crest. 



3p5cul(o tantalum IcucoctpljaluS (Gmelin i). 

 Syn. Tantalus leucocephalus, Gmelin ^. 



The type and only Indian species. Of comparatively large size, 

 the length of the tarso-metatarsus being 0,231. 

 Ilab. India. 



A. 89. The distal portion of the left tibio-tarsus ; from Pleistocene 

 cavern-deposits in the Karnul district, Madras. A rather 

 larger specimen of the opposite side from the same deposits 

 is figured by the writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica ' 

 (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. iv. p. 54, fig. 9, A, 

 where it is incorrectly referred to Ibis melanocepliala. 



Presented by the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of India, 1886. 



A. 90. The distal extremity of the right tarso-metatarsus; from the 

 cavern-deposits of the Karnul district. Agrees with the 

 specimen of the opposite side figured by the writer (oj). cit. 



Fis. 19. 



Pseudotantalus leucocephalus. — Anterior aspect of the distal extremities of tbe 

 right tibio-tarsus aud the left tarso-metatarsus. \. a, bridge over groove 

 for extensor tendons ; b, tubercle on same. (From the ' Eec. Geol. Surv. 

 Ind.') 



fig. 9, B) as Ibis melanocepliala. Both this and the pre- 

 ceding specimen agree precisely with the corresponding 

 bones of modern examples of the present species (fig. 19). 

 Presented by the Director of the Geological 

 Survey of India, 1886. 



' Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 049 (17SS). = Loc. cit. 



