LEPTOPTILUS JAVAN1CUS. 1115 



breeding in large numbers in Burmali. In this latter country both species arrive suddenly in vast numbers 

 in October, and commence breeding in the following month. On a range of limestone rocks called the Needong 

 hills, which rise perpendicularly from the forests on the Attaran river, Mr. C. T. Bingham found a large colony 

 of both species, the nests being placed on ledges of the rock, and were large fiat masses of sticks without any 

 lining. Unfortunately no eggs of the present species were procured, those taken belonging to the Pouched 

 Adjutant. Mr. Oates has recently recorded the finding of an enormous colony of Adjutants and Pelicans 

 extending over a large forest on the left bank of the Sittang, between Rangoon and Tonghoo. The nests 

 were wedged into the forks of the branches of immense trees, and were so large that a sitting bird could not 

 be seen from below. Some eggs brought to Mr. Oates by a native as those of the Hair-crested Stork were 

 snow-white, with the interior lining of the shell dark green ; but as they measured more than those of the 

 Pouched Adjutant, it is probable that they belonged to the latter bird. The dimensions of two were 3"16 by 

 2-25 and 2'98 by 2\2 inches. 



A pair of eggs sent by Mr. Low from Lumbidan, Borneo, together with the head of the female bird, to 

 Mr. Sharpe, are pale greenish blue, measuring 2'7 by 1"95 inch. 



Genus XENORHYNCHUS. 

 Bill very large ; culmen and commissure slightly ascending near the tip. Legs longer than 

 in the last genus. 



Head and neck feathered closely. 



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