388 PLATALEINA. 
Stray Feathers, Vol. LV, p 24; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 435; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 276 ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India’; ibis, 1885, p. 136. 
THE PELICAN IBIs. 
Length, 42; expanse, 72 ; wing, 20; tail, 7; tarsus, 7°75; bill at 
front, 9 to 10. 
Bill deep yellow, tip greenish, as also are the naked orbits, 
head and gular skin ; irides pale yellow-brown ; legs fleshy-red. 
Plumage white; the quills and tail richly glossed green-black ; 
tertiaries white, beautifully tinged with rosy, with a darker band 
near the end, and a white tip; the feathers loose and decomposed ; 
lesser and median-coverts glossy green, with white edges; greater- 
coverts pure white. 
In summer the tertiaries acquire a deeper rosy tint, and the 
bill and nude parts become of a brighter and deeper yellow. 
The young bird has the plumage generally brown, paler on the 
back and rump, dark on the wing-coverts ; beneath more or less 
albescent, with a broad brown patch on the sides of the abdomen ; 
bill pale greenish-yellow. 
The Pelican Ibis, or Painted Adjutant, is generally distributed 
throughout the region. It isa permanent resident. I found a 
colony of these birds breeding in March, at Hir, about ten miles 
from Neemuch ; the nests, considering the size of the birds, were 
very frail; they were composed of twigs, and the eggs could be 
seen from below; there were fifty or sixty nests, and none contain- 
ed more than four eggs, but they were all fresh, and possibly they 
may lay more. The eggs are elongated ovals, much compressed 
at one end; the shell is fine and compact, of a dull white color. 
They measure 2°76 inches in length by about 1:9 in breadth. 
Sus-FAMILY, Plataleine. 
Bill very broad, flat, and depressed. 
Grnvs, Platalea, Lin. 
Bill long, very broad, depressed and thin, dilated, and rounded 
at the extremity like a spatula; nostrils basal, oblong, apert ; wings 
moderate, second quill longest; tibia bare for nearly half its 
length ; tarsus moderately long, reticulated ; the three anterior toes 
united at the base by a deeply cut web; head and face more or 
less nude. 
Platalea leucorodia, Lin. 
937.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IJ, p. 763; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 24; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 433; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 277; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 186. 
THE SPOONBILL. 
Length, 81 to 36; wing, 14°5 to 16; tail, 6°5 ; tarsus, 5 to 6; bill 
at front, 7°8 to 8:5, 
