THE IBIS 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. X. APRIL 1903. 



XIY. — On a new Stork from Borneo. 

 By W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. 



(Plate V.) 



A Stork belonging to the genus Dissura was recently shot by 

 Mr. William Morton on the Simunjan River, a tributary of 

 the Sadong, in Southern Sarawak, and subsequently brought 

 to me for identification. An examination of the series of 

 Dissura episcopus in the British Museum confirmed the 

 suspicion that this bird belonged to a perfectly distinct species, 

 but disclosed the fact that a similar specimen to that shot 

 by Mr. Morton had been sent home by Sir Hugh Low in 

 1876. Probably from lack of material the differences 

 between this bird and D. episcopus had not been recognised, 

 and the specimen had been catalogued under the latter title. 

 It was obtained on the Mengalong River, North Sarawak 

 (not at Labuan, as stated in the ' Catalogue of Birds'), and 

 bears the following note in Sir Hugh Low's handwriting:— 



" This Stork was caught in the forest, on the banks of the 

 Mengalong River, in a springe set for pheasauts. I never 

 saw another specimen, and the natives do not know it." 



Shortly after receiving Mr. Morton's example, which he 

 informs me proved on dissection to be an adult female, 

 the British Museum received a third specimen of the same 



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