AVES. 405 



Anastomus BoNNAT., lLLiG,,i7i«nsLACEP. Bill elongate, porrect, 

 fibrous, rough, emarginate at the tip, compressed, with margins 

 rubbed down, gaping in the middle. Nostrils basal, superior, 

 pervious. Feet elongate, with tibiai for the greater part naked. 

 Tarsi reticulate. Toes long, anterior joined at the base by mem- 

 brane; hallux insistent. Wings with second and third quills or 

 third and fourth longest, subequal. 



Sp. Anastomus coromandelicus, Ardea cormnandelica Gm. (and Ardea pondi- 

 ceriana Gm.), Buff. PI. enl. 932, Sonnekat Voy. aux Ind. Or. PI. 122; 

 Bengal. — Anastomus lamelligerus Temm. PL color. 236, GvsER.Iconogr., Ois. 

 PI. 54, fig. I ; in Senegal and South Africa; black, with glossy, red-brown 

 and violet coverts on the back and wings ; the feathers of the neck, breast 

 and belly have the shaft running into smooth, horny lamelliB {jilumce folii- 

 ferce), such as present themselves in Gallus Sonneratii, in a species of Ibis 

 {Ibis lamellicollis Lafken.), and some also on the wings of Bomhicilla 

 garrulus. 



Ciconia Illig. (species o^ Ardea and Mycteria L.). Bill elongate, 



thick, straight, with lower mandible subrecurved. Nostrils linear, 



placed near the base at the culmen of bill. Region round the orbits 



destitute of feathers; sometimes the whole face and throat naked. 



Feet elongate. Tarsi reticulate with hexagonal scales. Anterior 



toes conjoined at the base by membrane; hallux insistent from the 



point to beyond the middle. Wings \Anth second and third, or 



third and fourth quills longest. 



Sp. Ciconia alba Briss., Ardea Ciconia Jj., Bdff. PI. enl. 866, Less. Ornith. 

 PI. 98, fig. I, Naum. Taf. 228; the stork, la cicogne, der Starch; white, 

 with flag-feathers black, a bald, blackish circle round the eyes ; bill and legs 

 red ; this bird commonly known in Holland and other parts of the continent, 

 but a rare visitant in England, frequents the banks of rivers, lakes, canals, 

 &c., makes its nest in dead trees, on roofs of houses, especially on towers, 

 and lays 3, 4 or 5 white eggs ; it feeds on frogs, grasshoppers, beetles, and 

 even on mice ; on account of its destroying injurious animals the stork has 

 been regarded, both in modern and in ancient times (compare Plinius 

 Hist. nat. Lib. xc, 23) as a sacred bird by the farmer. — Ciconia nigra 

 Bechst., Ardea nigra L., Buff. PI. enl. 399, Naum. Taf. 229; the blach 

 stork, la cicogne noire, der schwarze Storch; black, with green and purple 

 gloss, bill and legs like the preceding species ; this bird makes its nest in 

 trees and lives more on fish, like the heron ; it is found in many countries 

 of Europe, but is very rare and accidental in Holland, for it doe.s not appear 

 to make its nest there. — Ciconia maguari, Ardea maguari Gm., Guerin 

 Iconogr., Ois. PI. 53, fig. r, in America, especially in Brasil, &c. 



Argala Leach, Leptoptilus Less., Gray. Bill very large, thick, 

 trigonal. Head and neck unplumed. 



