PSEUDOTANTALUS. 375- 



p. 1113; Butler, 8. F. ix, p. 432; Parker, ibid. p. 483; Reid, 



S. F. x, p. 73 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 263 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 374 ; 



Cripps, S. F. xi, p. 330 ; Gates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. Hi, 



p. 264 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 317. 



The Hair-crested Stork, Jerdon; Chinjara, Chandana, Chandiari, 

 Bang-gor, Chota ganir, II. ; Madan-chur, Modun-tiki, Beng. ; Tokla- 

 moora, Assam. ; Dodal-konga , Dodal gatti-gadu, Tel. Mdna, Ceylon ; 

 Don-mi-gwet, Burni. 



Coloration. Scattered hair- like feathers and down on neck and 

 on sides of head, much thicker about the nape, dark brown ; upper 

 plumage, wings, and tail black, glossed with metallic green ; 

 feathers of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts closely barred 

 across, a coppery spot in some skins (breeding-plumage ?) close- 

 to the tip of each larger secondary-covert ; longer scapulars 

 and tertiaries edged laterally with white; lower parts white, 

 except the wing-lining which is black ; under tail-coverts longer 

 than in L. dubius, very soft. 



Young birds have more feathers about the nape. 



Bill dirty yellowish ; bare top of head dirty green ; nude face 

 and neck much tinged with yellow and at seasons with red ; irides 

 whitish ; legs dusky black (Jerdon}. 



Length 54 ; tail 11 ; wing 26 ; tarsus 10-5 ; bill from gape 12. 

 Females appear to be considerably smaller. 



Distribution. The greater part of India but nowhere common, 

 rare or wanting to the westward, not observed in Rajputana, 

 Sind, or the Punjab, and of doubtful occurrence in the Bombay 

 Presidency. This Adjutant has been observed on the Malabar 

 coast, and it occurs and breeds in Ceylon. It is found throughout 

 Burma and the Malay Peninsula, Eastern China, Sumatra, Java, 

 and Borneo. 



Habits, $c. This is by no means so familiar a bird as its larger 

 relative, nor is it, as a rule at all events, a feeder on carrion. It 

 keeps to well-wooded and watered tracts, living on fish, reptiles, 

 locusts, crabs, &c. It breeds in Pegu and the neighbourhood 

 of Moulmein later than L. dubius, and in Ceylon from February 

 to April. The details of niditication are similar to those of the 

 larger Adjutant. The eggs measure about 2'84 by 2'09. 



Genus PSEUDOTANTALUS, Eidgway, 1883. 



Bill long, scarcely compressed, broad at the base, bent down 

 towards the tip ; lower mandible slightly concave beneath \ 

 culmen rounded throughout ; both mandibles subcylindrical an- 

 teriorly ; nostrils near the culmen, basal, oval ; head aud throat 

 naked, nape and neck feathered ; legs long, tibia half-nude, toes 

 long. Lower tail-coverts extending beyond the tail. 



This genus and Tantalus, which is an American form, chiefly 

 distinguished by its naked neck, were long classed with the Ibises 

 or in a family apart, but they are true Storks. One species is- 

 Indian. 



