732 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



i\Ir. Blyth in the Ibis, vol. 3, p. 268, who showed that both the 

 passing of the Crow into the pouch and the call of the Adjutant 

 were simply impossible, in consequence of structural peculiarities 

 Avhich have been described in previous pages. 



The Adjutant breeds in trees on rocky clifis, occasionally, it is 

 said, in lofty trees away from hills. The neighbourhood of Moul- 

 mein is one of the best known localities ; the nests were found by 

 Colonel Tickell on trees near the summit of some of the remarkable 

 limestone rocky hills near that place. Captain Sparks had previ- 

 ously found the nest in the same locality ; and Mr. Frith found 

 them lireeding in the south-east part of the Sunderbuns. The 

 Adjutant lays two white eggs, and the young are covered with 

 white down. 



The feathers known as- Marabou, or Comercolly feathers, and 

 sold in Calcutta, are the under tail-coverts of this and the follomng 

 species. There is a popular superstition that if you split the head 

 of this bird before deatli, you will extract from it the celebrated 

 stone called Zahir-mora, or poison killer, of great virtue and repute 

 as an antidote to all kinds of poison. 



916. Leptoptilos javanica, Horsfield. 



. Ciconia, apud Horsfied — Blyth, Cat. 1633 — C. calva, 

 Jerdon, Cat. 318 — C. capillata, Temminck, PI. Col. 312 — C. 

 nudifrons, and C. cristata, McClelland — A. crinita, Buch. 

 Hamilton, Mss. — Argala immigratoria, Hodgson — Madanchur 

 also Modwi-tihi, Beng. — Chinjara, H. — Chandanam some parts — 

 Chandiari in Bhagulpore — Bang-gor in Purneah — Dodal-konga, 

 and Dodal gatti-gadu, Tel. — Small Adjutant of Europeans. 



The hair-crested Stork. 



Descr. — Top of the head entirely bald, horny ; the rest of the 

 head, face and neck bare, with a few longish hair-like feathers on 

 the occiput ; the face and the rest of the neck more or less 

 thickly covered with hairs, some long, others short, collected into 

 a thin mane on the back of the neck, and a small tuft on the lower 



