316 IIBDS OF SOUTH AFEICA. 



head, chin, and neck, white ; belly and rump, white ; top 

 and back of head, black ; tail white ; the webs of the four 

 outside feathers, black, shining coppery. Length, 2^' ; 

 wing, 18i". 



This bird appears rather frequently in Natal ; but I have not met 

 with it in this colony, nor in any collection made to the Westward, 

 or in the Interior. It could not have passed me unnoticed, as I am 

 well acquainted with it from seeing it in Ceylon. 



Genus LEPTOPTILUS, Lesscta. 

 Bill very large, straight, and the base higher than broad, 

 with the culmen keeled, and straight to the tip, which is 

 acute ; the sides compressed ; the gonys long and gradually 

 ascending ; the nostrils small, pierced in the substance of the 

 bill, with the opening linear ; wings long and ample ; tail 

 moderate and broad ; tarsi robust, much longer than the 

 middle toe, covered with reticulated scales ; toes long, with 

 the anterior ones united at the base, especially the outer toe ; 

 the hind toe long, and partly resting on the ground. The 

 head and neck denuded of feathers. 



599. Leptoptilos Orumeniferus, Cuvier ; 



Cicoaia Argali, Temm., PI. Col., 301 ; C. Vetula, 

 Sundevall. 



Above, dark greenish-black, slightly glistening; below, 

 dirty-white ; head and neck bare ; the back of the latter 

 furnished with a stripe of scanty^ woolly hairs : a few of 

 these are also scattered on the pouch which hangs in front, 

 and on the bare spot of the breast beneath it. In life, these 

 bare places are of a bright carmine. The bill is very strong, 

 straight, and of a dirty yellowish-white ; the legs and feet 

 jet-black. Length, 5'; wing, 28"; tail, 10". 



The Adjutant has not occurred to me, but is included in this list on 

 the authority of Dr. Hartlaub, Sys. der Orn. W. Af , p. 228. I saw- 

 it abundantly on the East Coast ; and a specimen in the Museum was 

 brought from the mouth of the Zambesi. 



Genus MYCTERIA, Linn. 

 Bill long and strong, with the base higher than broad, the 

 culmen straight towards the tip, which is turned upwards, as 

 well as that of the lower mandible ; the sides compressed, 

 and the gonys long and curved upwards ; the nostrils lateral, 

 pierced in the substance of the bill, with the opening linear ; 

 wings long and ample, with the second and third quills 



