CICONID. 875 
mane on the back of the neck, and a small tuft on the lower part 
of the neck; a large white neck-ruff covering the sides of the 
neck and breast; plumage above glossy greenish-black ; all the 
body feathers and the lesser wing-coverts faintly barred with 
several narrow bars; scapulars, the uppermost tertiaries, and the 
last of the greater-coverts more brightly green glossed and edged 
with white ; plumage beneath white. 
Jerdon states that the Hair-crested Adjutant is found in small 
numbers throughout India, but as a matter of fact within our limits 
it has very doubtfully been recorded from the Deccan, and a 
single specimen was obtained by myself in Central India. 
Genus, Xenorhynchus, Bona. 
Bill very long, stout, solid, compressed, slightly ascending to the 
tip; tarsus much elongated. 
Xenorhynchus asiaticus, Lath. 
917.—Mycteria australis, Shaw.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. 
II, p. 734; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 22; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. [X, p. 432; Murray’s Vertebrate 
Zoology of Sind, p. 266; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 135. 
THE BLACK-NECKED STORK. 
Length, 52 to 56; wing, 23 to 24; tail, 9; tarsus, 12 to 13; 
bill at front, 11 to 13. 
Bill black ; irides brown; legs red. 
Head and neck rich dark glossy-green, beautifully glossed with 
purple on the hind-head and occiput ; middle and greater-coverts, 
scapulars, and a portion of the interscapulars, tertiaries, and tail 
glossy green ; the rest of the plumage pure white. 
The Black-necked Stork is fairly common ‘in Sind; further 
south in Guzerat it becomes less common, and in the Deccan §it is 
rare. It is a permanent resident, building a large platform nest 
of sticks about September in some high tree. The eggs, three 
or four in number, are moderately broad ovals, compressed 
towards one end; they are unspotted sullied white in color. The 
shell is smooth to the touch, but rather coarse in texture. The 
eggs vary from 2°65 to 3°13 inches in length, and from 1°98 to 23 
in. breadth, but they average 2‘91 by 2:12. 
Guyus, Ciconia, Linneus. 
Bill straight, moderately robust, acute ; upper mandible convex 
above ; lower mandible inclining a little upwards at the tip; nos- 
trils pierced in the horny substance of the bill ; orbits more or 
less naked; tarsi long; a considerable part of the tibia nude; 
wings moderate, ample, third and fourth quills longest; toes 
strongly webbed at the base; hind-toe moderately long; claws 
shori, depressed, blunt, not pectinated. 
