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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^E. 



Melanopelaegus, Reichenbach. 



178. Melanopelaegus episcopus (Bodd.), Tabl. PL Enl. (1783), ex Daubent. PI. Enl. 906. 



Ardea leucocephala, Gm. Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 642, " Coromandel " (1788), ex Buffon, Hist. Nat. 

 Ois. vii. p. 370; Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ciconia, p. 11. 



Hah. Saoussou, in June (Rosenberg) ; Ceylon (mus. nostr.) ; all India, Burma (Jerdon) ; 

 Java, Borneo (Mus. Lugd.) ; Tropical Africa (Schlegel). Conf. O. Finsch & Hartl. VSg. 

 Ost-Afr. pp. 722, 723. 



TANTALID^E. 



Falcinellus, Bechstein. 



179. Falcinellus igneus (S. G. Gmelin), Nov. Comm. Ac. Scient. Imp. Petropol. xv. 



p. 460, pi. 18 '(1771). 



Numenius viridis, S. G-. Grmelin, op. cit. p. 462, pi. 19. 



Tantalus castaneus, P. L. S. Miiller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 112 (1776), ex Marsigli. 



Falcinellus peregrinus (S. Miiller), 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 (Forsten) ; 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. 1. c). S. Midler's specimen of Inocotis papillosa (Temm.), 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 (S. N. p. 649) quotes the thirteenth plate, thus copying a misprint in S. G. Gmelin's text. 

 The thirteenth plate represents Oaecabis rufa (Linn.). 



