276 BIRDS OF THE DUTCH BORNEO-EXPEDITION. 



Ardetla cinnamomea Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 354; Everett, L. B. Born, 

 p. 190; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 147. 



A male collected at Pontianak (Moret) and two females 

 from the Upper aad Lower Mabakkam. — Iris yellow, bill 

 lemou-yellow, ridge black, feet dirty olive-green. 



Hab. From India and Ceylon through Burmah and the 

 Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines. 



Ciconiidae. 



269. Melanopelargus episcopus. 



Ardsa episcopus Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 54 (1783). 

 Melanopelargus episcopus Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 356; Everett, L. B. 

 Born. p. 191. 



An adult male obtained near Poetoes Sibau by Dr. Nieu- 

 wenhuis. — Iris pale yellow with an outer ring brown, 

 bare skin round the eyes and on the throat Naples-yellow, 

 bill dark red, feet vSienna-yellow. — Contents of stomach : 

 earthworms of a species which is very plentiful in the mud 

 of the river-banks. — This bird is not rare on the banks 

 of the Kapoeas, but it is rather shy and not easily got 

 within gun-shot. Some five specimens together used to pass 

 the night on high trees dominating the low forest on the 

 Sibau River. 



Hab. Africa, Southern Asia and the Sunda Islands. 



Rotterdam, September 1899. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. XXI. 



