2 ADJUTANI—AETOMORPHZ 
BIRD) and Menura (LYRE-BIRD), the other (normales) containing 
all the rest of the OSCINES. 
ADJUTANT, a large kind of STorK, so called by the English 
in India and elsewhere “from its comical resemblance to a human 
figure in a stiff dress pacing slowly on a parade-ground” (Yule & 
Burnell, Hobson-Jobson, sub voce). It belongs to the genus Leptoptilus, 
of which the members are distinguished by their sad-coloured 
plumage, their black, scabrous head, and their enormous tawny 
pouch, which depends, occasionally some 16 inches or more in 
length, from the lower part of the neck, and is not connected as 
commonly believed with the digestive system (see AIR-SACKS). In 
many parts of India L. dubius, or L. argala of some authors, the 
largest of these birds, the Hargila as Hindus call it, is a most 
efficient scavenger, sailing aloft at a vast height and descending on 
the discovery of offal, though frogs and fishes also form part of its 
diet. It familiarly enters the large towns, in many of which on 
account of its services it is strictly protected from injury, and, 
having satisfied its appetite, seeks the repose it has earned, sitting 
with its feet extended in front in a most grotesque attitude. A 
second and smaller species, L. javanicus, has a more southern and 
eastern range; while a third, L. crwmenifer, of African origin, and 
often known as the Marabou-Stork, gives its name to the beautifully 
soft feathers so called, though our markets are mostly supplied with 
them by the Indian species (in which they form the lower tail- 
coverts), if not, as some suppose, by VULTURES. Related to the 
Adjutants are the birds known as JABIRUS. 
AEGITHOGNATHS, the fourth and last Suborder of Car- 
INAT&, according to Prof. Huxley’s arrangement (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1867, pp. 450-456, 467-472), founded chiefly on palatal characters, 
containing two groups, the CYPSELOMORPHA and CORACOMORPHA, 
and possibly a third, the CELEOMORPH (or Gecinomorphx). In 
the true egithognathous structure the vomer is broad, abruptly 
truncated in front and deeply cleft behind, so as to embrace the 
rostrum of the sphenoid; the palatals have produced postero- 
external angles, the maxillo-palatals are slender at their origin, 
and extend obliquely inwards and backwards over the palatals, ending 
beneath the vomer in expanded extremities, not united either 
with one another or with the vomer, nor is the last united with the 
ossification of the anterior part of the nasal septum—a not un- 
common condition. As a whole the pe ead correspond 
pretty well with the INsEssoREs of Vigors. 
AETOMORPH A, Prof. Huxley’s name (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, 
pp. 462-465) for that group of his Suborder DESMOGNATHA, which 
includes the Birds-of-Prey, commonly so called, and therefore 
practically equivalent to the ACCIPITRES of Linnzus and the Rap- 
