CICONTD^. 



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Another White Stork is 6". maguari, Gmel., {Jahiru, Spix.) from 

 South America, stated, but erroneously, to have occurred in 

 Europe, and figured as such by Gould, in his Birds of Europe, 

 pi. 285. 



The next form is a somewhat peculiar one. It has the upper 

 tail-coverts disposed like the tail of a Drongo, the outermost 

 feathers long, the median short, and these feathers being of stiff 

 texture, give it the appearance of having a double tail. The 

 forehead is nude, and the orbital skin is continued a short way 

 beyond the ear. In its habits it may be said to be intermediate 

 between C. nigra and C. alba. {Diplura, or Diplocercus, Blyth.) 



920. Ciconia leucocephala, Gmelin. 



Ardea, apud Gmelin— PI. Enl. 906. Blyth, Cat. 1031— 

 Sykes, Cat. 184 — Jeedon, Cat. 314 — Manik-jor, H. — Kali, of 

 falconers in the South of India — said to be called Lug-lug in 

 Hindostan — Kandesur or Koivroiv, Mahr. — Sanlm-hudi-komja, 

 Tel.— 



The White-necked Stork. 



Descr. — Top of the head black, the whole neck white, the rest 

 of the body black, beautifully glossed with purple on the back 

 of neck, upper back and breast, and upper part of abdomen ; 

 quills and upper tail-coverts glossed with green, as is part of the 

 lower back ; tail white. 



Bill dusky, with a red tinge on the culmen, at the meeting of 

 the mandibles, and on the lower mandible ; the nude front, face, 

 throat, and patch behind the ear dusliy plumbeous ; irides 

 red ; sclerotic black with an anterior patch of red, and a posterior 

 one of yellow ; tarsus dull red ; naked skin of the ulna exposed, 

 bright blood-red. Length 36 to 37 inches; extent 68 ; wing 20; 

 tail 7 ; bill at front 6 ; tarsus 7. 



The White-necked Stork frequents alike open plains, ploughed 

 lands, fields, and the edges of lakes, jheels, and rivers ; its food 

 consists of beetles, grasshoppers, lizards, crabs, and molluscs, with 

 aquatic insects. It is found throughout all India, very abundantly 

 in well-watered districts ; it spreads through Burmah to the 

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