390 IBISIN &. 
twigs. The eggs, four or five in number, are of an oval shape, 
of a creamy-white color when fresh, but soon get stained as 
incubation proceeds. 
They measure 2°24 by 1°6. 
SuB-FAMILY, Ibisinee. 
Bill long, thin, curved. 
Genus, Ibis, Bonap. 
Bill very long, moderately stout, thickened at the base, some- 
what square, arched more or less throughout ; the upper mandible 
with along lateral groove produced to the tip; nostrils basal, 
narrow ; wings long, the second quill longest, or the third and 
fourth sub-equal to it; tail short, even, of twelve feathers ; tarsus 
moderate; toes long, hallux resting on the ground; head and 
neck of the adult devoid of feathers; scapulars and tertials 
decomposed, lengthened; feathers of the breast elongated; 
plumage white. 
Ibis melanocephala, Lath. 
941.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 768 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 25; Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 485; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind 
p. 278 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 136. 
THE WHITE Isis. 
Length, 29; expanse, 45; wing, 14; tail, 5°75; tarsus, 4; 
bill at front, 6. 
Bill black; irides red-brown; legs black. 
Head and neck nude, black; rest of the plumage white, the 
quills black with green reflections; scapulars and tertials with 
the barbs disunited and open, lengthened, of a dull inky-purple 
or quaker-grey; winglet, primary coverts, under wing-coverts 
and axillaries, creamy-white. 
The young have the head and neck more or less clothed with 
short white feathers, which gradually fall off, and they want the 
lengthened scapulars. 
The White Ibis is more or less common throughout the district. 
It is probably a permanent resident in most places; it breeds in 
Sind during October, November, and December. 
Genus (Geronticus) Inocotis. 
Bill more slender and longer than in the last ; tarsi robust, 
covered anteriorly with hexagonal scales; toes somewhat short, 
stout ; top of the head only nude; plumage dark; wings long 
ample. 
Tnocotis papillosus, Zem. 
942.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 769; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 24; Butler, Deccan, Stray Fea- 
thers, Vol. IX, p. 435; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 
p. 278, 
