LEPTOPTILUS JAVAN1CUS. 
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breeding in large numbers in Burmah. In this latter country both species arrive suddenly in vast numbers 
in October, and commence breeding in the following mouth. 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 flat masses of sticks without any 
lining. Unfortunately no eggs of the present species were procured, those taken belonging to the Pouched 
Adjutant. Mr. Oates lias 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 XENORHTNCIIUS. 
Bill very large ; culmen and commissure slightly ascendin, 
in the last genus. 
Head and neck feathered closely. 
near the tip. Legs longer than 
