276 BIRDS OF THE DUTCII BORNEO-EXPEDITION, 
Ardetla cinnamomea Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 354; Everett, L. B. Born, 
p. 190; Sharpe, Ibis 1890, p. 147. 
A male collected at Pontianak (Moret) and two females 
from the Upper and Lower Mahakkam. — Iris yellow, bill 
lemon-yellow, ridge black, feet dirty olive-green. 
Hab. From India and Ceylon through Burmah and the 
Malay Peninsula to the Sunda Islands and the Philippines. 
Ciconiidae. 
269. Melanopelargus episcopus. 
Ardea episcopus Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 54 (1788), 
Melanopelargus episcopus Salvad. Uce. Born. p. 356; Everett, L. B. 
Born. p. 191. 
_An adult male obtained near Poetoes Sibau by Dr. Nieu- 
wenhuis. — Iris pale yellow with an outer ring brown, 
bare skin round the eyes and on the throat Naples-yellow, 
bill dark red, feet Sienna-yellow. — Contents of stomach: 
earthworms of a species which is very plentiful in the mud 
of the river-banks. — This bird is not rare on the banks 
of the Kapoeas, but it is rather shy and not easily got 
within gun-shot. Some five specimens together used to pass 
the night on high trees dominating the low forest on the 
Sibau River. 
Hab. Africa, Southern Asia and the Sunda Islands. 
Rotterdam, September 1899. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Wol. X XT. 
