Order ARDEIF0BME8 
No. 226. 
Family PLEGADIDM. 
THRESEIORNIS MOLUCCA STRICTIPENNIS. 
WHITE IBIS. 
(Plate 177.)* 
Ibis steictipennis Gould, Synops Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, 1838 ; New 
South Wales, 
Ibis strictipennis Gould, Synops Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 7, 1838 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 190, 1877. 
Threskiornis strictipennis Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 46, 1844 ; id., Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 284, 1865; Diggles, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 102, 1877 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 340 ; id., Tabl. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 
1888 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IV., p. 420, 1889 ; 
North, Records Austr. Mus., Vol. I., p. 118, 1891 ; Campbell, Viet. Nat., Vol. VIII., 
p. 73, 1891 ; Heartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 187, 1898. 
Geronticus strictipennis Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., p. 566, 1847. 
Ibis molucca Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 9, 1898 ; Robinson and Laverock, 
Ibis 1900, p. 651 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 940, 1901 ; Le Souef, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 157, 1903 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 203, 1905 ; Hall, 
Eey Birds Austr., p. 96, 1906 ; Bemey, Ibis, Vol. VI., p. 114, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral, p. 30, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463 ; Mathews, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 104, 1910 ; North, Austr, Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 1, 1913. 
Ibis moluccxi strictipennis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 227, 1912. 
Ibis molucca alligator Mathews, ib. (South Alligator River, Northern Territory). 
Threskiornis molucca strictipennis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 77, 1913. 
Disteibution. Austraha generally. 
Adult male. General colour above and below white including the back, wings, and 
tail on the upper-surface, and the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axiUaries, 
and under wing-coverts on the lower-parts ; primary-quills tipped with greenish- 
black, which decreases in extent towards the inner ones ; secondaries white with 
a narrow black shaft-hne at the tip, the long innermost secondaries mottled with 
brown and greenish-black, the barbs of the feathers disintegrated ; bare skin 
under the wings dull red ; bill and bare skin on head and neck black ; the spot 
above the eye flesh-colour ; star and marks on hinder-head and neck pmk ; eyes 
brown, a red circle on the outside ; feet and legs pink, joints very black. Total 
length 800 mm. ; cuhnen 182, wing 370, tail 127, tarsus 110. 
Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but smaller in all measurements. 
* The Plate is lettered Ibis molvfxa. 
