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PLEQADID^.—CICONIID.E. 
Genus PLATIBIS Bonaparte. 
Plat ibis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xl. p. 724 
(before April 9tli), 1855. Type (by monotypy) : Platalea 
flaI'ipes Gould. 
Platibis flavipes (Gould). 
Distr. —Australia generally (except the south-west). Not 
Tasmania. 
Platibis flavipes flavipes (Gould). (26-51.) 
Platalea flavipes Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. iv., App. p. 7, 
April 1st, 1838 : New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 49.) 
Dist r .— South-Easte r n Australia. 
Platibis flavipes whitei (Mathews). 
Platalea flavipes whitei Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 229, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Alexandra, Northern Territory. (Fig. Math, 
pi. 181.) 
Distr .—Northern Australia. 
Genus DISSOURA Cab. 
Dissoura Cabanis, Breuss. Staats. Anz. for Sept. 1st, 1850, Beilage, 
p. 1484. Type (by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. vol. xxvi. p. 294, 1898) : Ardea episcopus Bodd. 
Dissoura episcopus (Bodd.). 
Distr .—The Ethiopian and Indian Regions to Celebes. 
[Dissoura episcopus episcopus (Bodd.). (26-294.) 
Ardea episcopus Boddaert, Tab. Planch. Enlum. p. 54, 1783 : Coro¬ 
mandel Coast. (Fig. Gen. B. iii. pi. 151.) 
Distr .—Indian Region. Extra-limital.] 
Dissoura episcopus neglecta Finsch. 
Dissoura neglecta Finsch, Orn. Monatsb. vol. xii. p. 94, 1904: 
Java, Sumbawa, Lombok, Philippines, and Celebes. 
Distr. —Celebes, Java, Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali, and Philip¬ 
pines. 
Family CICONIID^S. 
Genus XENORHYNCHUS Bonaparte. 
Xenorhynchus Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xl. 
p. 7*21 (before April 9th), 1855. Type (by tautonymy) : Xeno¬ 
rhynchus indicus (Lath.) = Af. asiatica Latham. 
Xenorhynchus asiaticus (Latham). 
Distr .—India to New Guinea and Australia. 
