310 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
Young birds have more feathers about the head, and the 
tertiaries have no white edging. 
Bill dirty yellow ; iris whitish ; legs dirty ashy-brown. 
Length 54; wing 26; tail 11; tarsus 10°5; bill from 
gape 12. 
Females are a good deal smaller. 
Distribution.—Sparingly scattered through the wilder parts 
of the dry zone. May be met with here and there over most 
of India ; commoner in Burma, and ranges eastwards to China 
and the Malay Archipelago. 
Habits —Frequents remote tanks and water-holes in the 
heart of the forest. The species probably breeds in the Island, 
but no eggs appear to have been taken as yet. The nest is 
the usual huge pile of sticks in a tree; the three white eggs 
measure about 2°84 by 2°09. 
PSEUDOTANTALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 376). 
TANTALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (Legge, p. 1100). 
The Painted Stork, or Pelican Ibis. 
Description.—Plumage mainly white ; primaries, second- 
aries, and tail black with a green gloss; tertiaries rose-pink 
edged with white; lesser wing coverts glossy green-black 
with white edges ; scapulars and greater wing coverts tinged 
with rose. The wing lining and a broad band across the 
breast black with a green gloss, each feather being edged with 
white ; under tail coverts with a faint rosy tinge. 
Young birds have the wing quills and tail coloured as in 
adults, but the rest of the upper parts are brown, with the 
exception of the rump, which, with the breast and abdomen, 
is dirty white. 
Bill and naked skin of head, face, and throat orange-yellow ; 
iris pale yellow ; legs brown. 
Length 40 ; wing 20; tail 6°5; tarsus about 8°5 ; bill from 
gape 10. 

Distribution —Fairly common round tanks and lagoons in 
the dry zone. Occurs in suitable localities all over India 
(except in the Punjab) and Burma, ranging eastwards to 
Southern China. 
