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breeding-plumage, and conspicuously differs from Indian and Cingalese examples in 
having the crown and crest dark green, almost black, instead of a much lighter shade 
of green. Other differences are to be detected, which may not prove constant. For 
instance, in a Ceylon example, all the wing-coverts, and the four secondary quills 
nearest the body, are bordered with bright ochreous yellow, and not with white as in 
the Menado individual. If the Menado bird agrees with the Javan, Mr. Hodgson 
appears to have been justified in separating the continental form under the title of 
chloriceps. 
CICONIID. 
MELANOPELARGUS, Reichenbach. 
178. MELANOPELARGUS EPIScOPUS (Bodd.), Tabl. Pl. Enl. (1783), ex Daubent. Pl. Enl. 906. 
Ardea leucocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 642, “ Coromandel” (1788), ex Buffon, Hist. Nat. 
Ois. vil. p. 370; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconie, p. 11. 
Hab. Saoussou, in June (Rosenberg) ; Ceylon (mus. nostr.); all India, Burma (Jerdon) ; 
Java, Borneo (Mus. Lugd.); Tropical Africa (Schlegel). Conf. O. Finsch & Hartl. Vog. 
Ost-Afr. pp. 722, 723. 
TANTALID. 
FALcInELLvs, Bechstein. 
179. FauciveLtus 1eneus (S. G. Gmelin), Nov. Comm. Ac. Scient. Imp. Petropol. xv. 
p- 460, pl. 18' (1771). 
Numenius viridis, 8. G. Gmelin, op. cit. p. 462, pl. 19. 
Tantalus castaneus, P. Li. 8. Miller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 112 (1776), ex Marsigli. 
Falcinellus peregrinus (S. Miller), Mus. Lugd., Bp. Consp. ii. p. 159, “ Celebes, Java” (1857). 
Ibis falcinellus, Vieill., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ibis, p. 2. 
Tantalus falcinellus, Linn. S. N. ed. 12, i. p. 241 (1766). 
Hab. Gorontalo, female, moulted, 30th September—male, in almost perfect plumage, 
1st October—female in almost perfect plumage, September—male, moulted 30th Sep- 
tember; Northern Celebes, male in perfect plumage; Celebes, examples in first 
plumage (/orsten); Macassar, female, moulted, March (S. Miiller). 
I do not venture on the general distribution of the Glossy Ibis, as it is still an open 
question whether the European, Asiatic, American, African, and Australian races are 
identical (conf. Bp. 7. c.). §. Miiller’s specimen of Inocotis papillosa (Lemm.), stated 
by Prince Bonaparte (op. cit. ii. p. 154) to have been collected in Celebes, came from 
Borneo (conf. Schlegel, op. cit. p. 10). 
1 J. F. Gmelin (8S. N. p. 649) quotes the thirteenth plate, thus copying a misprint in 8. G. Gmelin’s text. 
The thirteenth plate represents Caccabis rufa (Linn.). 
