Metojaidius indicus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 278, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii,
p. 708, 1864; Ball, Stray .Feathers, 1874, p. 481; Hume, t. c., p. 488; id., Stray Feathers,
1875, p. 188; id., Nests and Eggs, p. 591, 1878; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal,
vol. xliv, extra No., p. 157, 1875; Fairbank, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 263; Armstrong, t. c.,
p. 348; Butler, op. cit., p. 212.
a. b. c. d. Bhamfi, February 1868.
e. Tsitkaw, Upper Burma, 7th February 1875.
Common around Bhamd.
Family— GJR U1DJS.
G e n u s G r t j s , L i n n .
206. G r t j s a n t i g o n e , Pallas.
Ardea antigone, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, 1766, p. 235; Gmelin, op. cit., 1788, p. 622.
Grus antigone, Fallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., vol. ii, 1881, p. 102.
Grus torquata, Vieillot, Gal. Ois., t. ii, th. 256, 1825.
Grus orientalis, Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1881.
Antigone torquata, Bonap. Consp., vol. ii, p. 100, 1850.
a. b. Tsitkaw, March 1868 and March 1875.
This crane is distributed over Upper Burma and the high country beyond.
Erom our camp at Ponsee, at an elevation of 3,300 feet, I observed, in the
beginning of March, great numbers of this bird passing in the direction of the
Burmese valley, and flying in V-shaped flocks. My attention was first attracted to
them by their loud call overhead, for the birds were so distant as to appear mere
specks. When the flock in advance was right over the summit of the high mountain,
on the slope of which our camp was pitched, the birds flew round in a great
circle and continued doing so, until nine other flocks came up, and each circling
round commingled with the others. They then marshalled off into two great bands,
which broke up again into V-shaped flocks, as they continued their flight. I counted
about sixty in a flock, and as the flocks were nearly of uniform strength, there
could not have been fewer than 600 birds.
Family—IBIDIDÆ.
Genus E a l c i n e l l t j s , Bechst.
207. F a x c in e l l t j s rtjftjs, Scop.
Le Courly verd, Briss. Om., t. v, p. 826, pi. xxvii, fig. 2, 1760.
Le Courly marron, Briss., t. c., p. 329, 1760.
Le Courly brun d’ Amérique, Briss., t. c., p. 330,1760.
Le Courly varié de Mexique, Briss., t. c., p. 833, 1760.
Tantalus falcinellus,JAnn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 241, J76'6 ; Yarr., Br. B., vol. ii, p. 505, 1848;
Jaub. & Barth., Lap. Rich, ©ru., p. 368, 1858,
Scolopax rufa, Scop., Ann., i, p. 93, 1769.
Numenius igneus, Gm., Nov. Comm. Acad. Petr., t. xv, p. 460, 1771.
Nvmenius viridis, Gm., t. c., p. 462, 1771.
Lay Ibis, Lath., t. c., p. 118, 1788.
Greenlbis, Lath., Gen. Syn., vol. iii, p. 114, 1788.
Glossy Ibis, Lath., t. c., p. 115, 1788.
Courlis d’Italie, Daubent., PL Eni., 819.
Tantalus igneus, Gm., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 649, 1788.
Tantalus viridis, Gm., t. e., p. 648, 1788.
Tantalus niger, Gm., t. c., p. 650.
Tantalus mexicanus, Gm., t. c., p. 652.
Numenius falcvnellus, Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., t. ii, p. 165, 1811.
Ibis sacra, Temm., Man. d'Orn., p. 815, 1815.
Ibis noir, Savign., Hist. Nat. Myth, de Plbis, p. 35, fig. 4.
Numenius chilii, Vieill., N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., t. viii, p. 808, 1817.
Ibis falcvnellus, Vieill., N. Diet., xvi, p. 28, 1817 ; Temm., Man. d'Om., t. ii, p. 598, 1820 ;
Roux, Om. Prov., pl. 309, 1825 ; Wagl., Syst. Av. Ibis, sp., 1827 ; Werner, Atlas, pl. , 1827 ;
Less., Traité, p. 566, 1881; Gould, B. E ur.,iv,. pl. 801, 1837; Audub., B. Amer., vol. vi,
p. 50, pl. 858, 1842; Gray, Gen. B., iii, p. 566,1847; Kjærb., Om. Dan., tab. 33«, fig. s!
1851 ; Macgill., Br. B., vol. i, p. 493,1852; Schl., Vög. Nederl., pl. xx, 1854 ; Hartl., Om!
W. Afr., p. 280, 1857 ; Schl., Mus. P.-B., Ibis, p. 2, 1868; Pelz., Reis. Novara, Vög., pp.
125-127, 1865; Layard, B. S.-Afr., p. 819, 1867; Schl. & Poll., Faun. Madag., p. 128,
1868; Finsch & Hartl., Vög. Ostafr., p.730, 1870; Gray, Handl. B.,vol. iii, p. 89, 1871 ;
Heugl., Om. N. O. Afr., p. 1132, 1871 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 411 ^Shelley!
B. Egypt, p. 262, 1872 ; Severtz., Faun. Türkest., p. 68, 1873; Irby, Om. Gibr., p. 191*
1875.
Plegadis falcvnellus, Kaup., Naturl. Syst., p. 82, 1829; Salvad., Faun. Ital. Ucc., p. 247
1871.
Tantalides falcinellus, Wagler, Isis, 1882, p. 1231.
Ibis erythroriyncha, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1887, p. 127.
Ibis ordii, Bonap., Comp. List, B. Eur. & N. Amer., p. 49, 1888 ; Baird, B. N. Amer., p. 685
1860.
Falcinellus igneus, Gray, List, Gen. B., p. 84, 1814 ; id., List, Grallce, Brit. Mus., p. 92, 1844 ;
Gould, B. Austr., vi, pl. xlvii, 1848 ; Blyth, Cat. B., Mus. As. Soc., Bengal, p. 274, 1849;
Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 158, 1857; Fritsch., Vög. Eur., tab, 48, fig. 1^:1858; Jerdon, B.
Ind., vol. ii, p. 770, 1864; Gould, Handl., B. Austr., vol. ii, p. 286, 1865 ; Loche, Expl. Sei.
Alger., t. ii, p. 155, 186^ ; Degl. & Gerbe, Om., Eur., Bd. ii, p. 829, 1867 ; Holdsw.,
Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 479 ; Gould, B. Gt. Br., iv, pl. xlvii, 1878 ; Salvad., Ucc. Born.,
p. 360, . 1874; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 635, 1874; Butler & Hume, Stray
Feathers, 1876, p. 25 ; Butler, op. cit., 1877, p. 238 ; Elliot, Proc. Zool. Soc., .1875, p. 503 ;
Butler & Hume, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 25.
Ibis brevirostris, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp., vol. viii, p. 219, 1848 ; Hartl., Arch. f. Naturg., Bd.
xviii, p. 3 ;s,..18t8.
Tantalus bengalensis, Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 158, 1857.
Ibisperegrina, Bonap., t. c., p. 159, 1857.
jEudocimus erythrorhynchus, Bonap., t. c., p. 159, 1857.
Plegadis bengalensis, Bonap., C. R., xl, p. 725.
Plegadisperegrinus, Bonap., t. c., p. 725.
Plegadis ordii, Bonap., t. c., p. 725.
Plegadis erythrorhyncha, Bonap., t. c., p. 725.
Falcvnellus ordii, Cones, Pr. Philad. Acad., 1866, p. 96; Tacz., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1874, p. 562.
Falcinellus autumnalis, Doderl., Avif. Sicil., p. 220, 1869.
Falcinellus erythrorhynchus, Gundl., Journ. für Ornith., 1871, p. 285.