-376 CICOXTIDJE. 



1552. Pseudotantalus leucocephalus. The Painted Stork. 



Tantalus leucocephalus, Pennant, Ind. Zool. p. 11, pi. x (1769) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 275 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 761 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 173 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 274 ; Stoliczka, 

 J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 255 ; Hume, N. $ E. p. 626; Adam, 

 S. F. i, p. 899 ; Butler $ Hume, S. F. iv, p. 24 ; Fairbank, ibid. 

 p. 263 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 484 : Davids. $ Wend. S. F. 

 \ii, p. 91 ; Murray, ibid. pp. 110, 113 ; Butler, ibid. p. 188 ; Ball, 

 ibid. p. 231 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 309 ; Hwne, ibid. p. 507 ; id. Cat. 

 no. 938 ; Doiff, S. F. viii, pp. 372, 374 ; Newton, ibid. p. 415 ; 

 Leffffe, Birds Ceyl. p. 1100; Butle*, S. F. ix, p. 435; Reid, S. F. 

 x, p. 76 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 324 ; Simson, Ibis, 1882, p. 93; Oates, 

 B. B. ii, p. 267 ; Swinkoe 8f Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 136 ; Barnes, Birds 

 Bom. p. 387 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 338 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 

 2nd ed. iii, p. 220 ; Barnes, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc.'i, p. 60 ; vi. p. 149. 



Pseudotantalus leucocephalus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 323. 



The Pelican Ibis, Jerdon ; Janghil, Dokh, II. ; Kat-Sarunga, Ram- 

 jhankar, Sona-janga, Beng. ; Lungduk, Sind ; Yerri Kali-konga, Tel. ; 

 Singa nareli, Tarn. ; Changa vella nary, Tarn. (Ceylon) ; Datuduwa, 

 Cing. ; Hnet-kya, Burm. 



Fig. 89. Head of P. leucocephalus. 



Coloration. White, except the primaries, secondaries, and tail, 

 which are black glossed with green ; lesser and median, but not the 

 greater, coverts the same with broad white margins ; the under 

 wing-coverts and a broad band across the lower breast black 

 glossed with green, with white edges to the feathers ; tertiaries 

 pink with white borders ; scapulars and greater wing-coverts white 

 tinged with rosy. 



In young birds the neck and back are light brown, the neck- 

 feathers scale-like, with dark edges which are broader behind than 

 in front, lesser and median wing-coverts dark brown, greater 

 coverts paler, quills and tail as in adults ; the rump, breast, and 

 abdomen sullied white. 



Bill and facial skin orange-yellow, plumbeous at the base of the 

 bill ; irides pale yellow ; legs, toes, and claws brown. In the young 

 the iris is brown (Oates); legs fleshy red (Jerdon, Cripps). 



Length 40 ; tail 6'5; wing 20; tarsus 9*5 ; bill from gape 10. 



Distribution. Resident throughout India, except in the Punjab, 

 in tracts w'here there are large rivers, tanks, and marshes ; also in 

 Ceylon and Burma, and in Southern China and Cochin China ; but 

 P. leucocephalus is very common in the Deccan. It is replaced 

 l>y an allied species P. lacteus in the Malay Peninsula and 

 Islands. 



