200 ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



and the four secondary quills nearest the body, are bordered with bright ochreous yellow, and 

 not with white as in the Menado iudividual. If the Menado bird agrees with the Javan, 

 Mr. Hodo'son appears to have been justified in separating the continental form under the title of 

 chlorice]Js. 



CICOXIID^. 



MEL.VXOPEL.VKGCS, Reichenbach. 



178. Mel.\>-opel.'vrgus episcopus (Bodd.), Tabl. PI. Enl. (1783), ex Daubent. PI. Enl. 906. 

 Ardea leiicocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 642, " Coromandel " (1788), ex Buffon, 



Hist. Nat. Ois. ^•ii. p. 370 ; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconiw, p. 11. 



JIab. Saoussou, in June (Eosenhert/) ; Ceylon (mus. nostr.) ; all India, Burma {Jerdon) ; 

 Java, Borneo {Mus. Lufjd.); Tropical Africa {Schlegel). Conf. O. Fiusch & Ilartl. Yog. Ost-A£r. 

 pp. 722, 723. 



TANTALID^. 



Falcinellus, Bechstein. 



179. Falcixellus igneus (S. G. Gmelin), Nov. Comm. Ac. Scient. Imp. Petropol. xv. p. 460, 

 pi. IS* (1771). 



Kumenius viridis, S. G. Gmelin, op. cit. p. 462, pi. 19, 



Tantalus castaneus, P. L. S. MuUer, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 112 (1776), ex Marsigli. 



Falcinellus peregnnu.'i (8. Miiller), Mus. Lugd., Bp. Consp. ii. p. 159, " Celebes, Java " (1857), 



Ibis falcinellus, Vieill., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 2, 



Tantalus falcinellus, Linn. S. N. ed. 12, i. p. 241 (176G). 



Ilab. Gorontalo, female, moulted, 30th September — male, in almost perfect plumage, 

 1st October — female in almost perfect plumage, September — male, moulted 30th September ; 

 Northern Celebes, male in perfect plumage; Celebes, examples in first plumage {Fursten); 

 Macassar, female, moulted, March (.S'. Midler). 



I do not venture on the general distribution of the Glossy Ibis, as it is still an open 

 question whether the European, Asiatic, American, African, and Australian races are identical 

 {conf. Bp. I. c). S. Miiller's specimen of luocotis papulosa (Temm.), stated by Prince Bonaparte 

 {op. cit. ii. p. 154) to have been collected in Celebes, came from Borneo {conf. Schlegel, op. cit. 

 p. 10). 



Tr.z.s.viii. ANSERES. 



p. 102. 



ANATID.E. 



QuERQUEDULA, Stephens. 



180. QuERQUEDULA CIRCIA (Linn.), Syst. Nat. ed. 12, i. p. 204. 

 Anas querqucdula, L., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Anseres, p. 4 9. 



• J. F. Gmelin (S. N. p. 049) quotes the thirteenth plate, thus copying a miBprhit in S. G. Gmelin's text. The 

 thirteenth plate represents Caccabis rufa (Linn.). 



