Ord&y ARDEIFORMES 
No. 231. 
Family CICONIIDM, 
XENORHYNCHUS ASIATTCUS AUSTRALIS. 
BLACK-NECKED STORK. 
(Plate 182.)* 
Myctbeia australis Shaw, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. V., p. 34, 1800 ; New South 
Wales. 
Mycteria australis Shaw, Trans. Lirni. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. V., p. 23, 1800 ; Shaw and 
Nodder, Nat. Miscel., Vol. XV., pi. 601, 1803 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., 
pi. 51, 1847 ; Bennett, Gath. NaturaHst, p. 195, 1860, pi. i. ; Diggles, Handb. 
Birds Austr., pi. 104, 1877. 
Ciconia australis Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Col. d’Ois., Vol. III., text to pi. 300, 1824. 
Ciconia leucoptera Wagler, Syst. Av., Ciconia, p. 138, sp. 6, 1827 (New South Wales). 
XenorhyncJius australis Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 106, 1855 ; Gould, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 293, 1865 ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Ser. II., Vol. II., p. 987, 1888 ; id., Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 315, 1889 ; 
Heartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 188, 1898. 
XenorhyncJius asiaticus (not Latham) White, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. III., 
p. 136, 1886 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., XXVI., p. 310, 1898 (pars) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
p. 969, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 95, 1902 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., 
p. 203, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 100, 1906 ; Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., 
Birds, p. 146, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 155, 1907 ; Hall and Rogers, 
ib., Vol. VII., p. 141, 1908 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 31, 1908 ; 
Cornwall, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 141, pi. 12, 1909 ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 20, 
1911 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 47, 1913. 
Xenorhynchus asiaticus australis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 229, 1912 ; id.. 
List Birds Austr., p. 79, 1913. 
Xenorhynchus asiaticus rogersi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 229, 1912 
(Fitzroy River, North-west Australia). 
Distribution. Victoria ; New South Wales ; Queensland ; Northern Territory ; North- 
west Australia. 
Adult male. Lower hind-neck, entire back, lesser upper wing-coverts, primary- and 
secondary-quills white, like the breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, 
and lesser under wing-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts greenish- 
black, as also the outer web of the outer primary-coverts and the major coverts 
* The Plate is lettered Mycteria australis. 
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