500 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE IBIDIN*. [Jutie 5, 



Lnphotibis cristatus, Reich. Nov. Syn. Av. (1851) pi. 83. fig. 

 637; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) p. 154. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



This is one of the very handsomest members of this subfamily. 

 It is a native of Madagascar, and has been known to ornithologists 

 for nearly one hundred years. It is too conspicuous a bird, and has 

 too many and striking peculiarities to permit it to be confounded 

 with any of its relatives ; consequently its synonymy is simple, no 

 second name having been given to it. Like so many of the IbidincE, 

 it apparently belongs to a distinct genus, of which it is as yet the 

 only representative. 



Head — forehead metallic green; top of head covered with long 

 crest-feathers, white with dark chestnut tips, some of the most 

 lengthened feathers wholly white ; a full lengthened metallic green 

 nuchal crest springs from beneath the white ones just mentioned, 

 and is continued by the feathers of the neck of the same colour 

 nearly to the mantle ; bare space around the eye bright red ; cheeks 

 brownish ; chin, throat, and sides of neck blackish brown ; back, 

 breast, and underparts reddish chestnut ; wing white ; scapulars 

 reddish brown ; rump dark green, almost black ; tail dark blue with 

 green reflections ; flanks and thighs bronzy green ; bill olive-green ?, 

 brownish towards the tip ; legs and feet bright red. 



Total length 26 inches ; wing 14, tail 7g, bill along culmen 5|, 

 tarsus 2|. 



15. Hagedashia chalcoptera\ 



Tantalus hagedash. Lath. Ind. Orn. (1790) vol. ii. p. 708. sp. 23. 



Ibis hagedash, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xvi. p. 1 9 ; 

 id. Ency. Meth. (1823) tom. iii. p. 1147; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) 

 sp. 16; id. Isis (1829) p. 760; Less. Trait. Orn. (1831) p. 567- 

 sp. 8; Schleg. Mus. P.-Bas (1863) livr. 4, p. 10 ; Finsch & Hartl. 

 Vog. Ost-Afr. (1870) p. 735 ; Heugl. Ornith. Nordost-Afr. (1873) 

 Baudii. Abth. 1, p. 1141. 



Ibis chalcoptera, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xvi. 

 p. 9 ; id. Ency. Meth. (1823) tom. iii. p. 1 144 ; id. Gal. Ois. (1834) 

 pi. 246 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 9. 



Geronticus hagedash, Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol. iii. p. 566. 

 sp. 10; Hartl. Syst. Ornith. West-Afr. (1857) p. 231. sp. 656; 

 Brehm, Jour, fiir Ornith. (1858) p. 330; Gurney, Ibis (1865) 

 p. 274, (1868) p. 260 ; Layard B. S. Afr. (1867) p. 32U. sp. 605 ; 

 Grav, Hand-1. B. (1871) pt. iii. p. 40; Bocage, Jour, fiir Ornith. 

 (1876) p. 300. 



Harpiiwion hagedash, von Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. Nordost- 

 Afr. (1855) p. 313. sp. 635. 



Hagedashia caffrensis, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. iii. 

 p. 152 ; Gurney, Anders. B. Damar. Land (1872) p. 298. 



1 Bonaparte (I. e.) and some others call this species " caffrensis, Licht. Oat. 

 Hfimb." Not having been able to examine this book, I do not know whether 

 liichteijstein's name antedates that of Vieillot, or not. 



