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Show 500 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE IBIDIN.E. [June 5, Lophotibis cristatus, Reich. Nov. Syn. Av. (1851) pl. 83. fig. 637; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) p. 154. Hab. Madagascar. This is one of the very handsomest members of this subfamily. It is a native of Madagascar, and has been known to ornithologists for nearly one hundred years. It is too conspicuous a bird, and has too many and striking peculiarities to permit it to be confounded with any of its relatives ; consequently its synonymy is simple, no second name having been given to it. Like so many of the Ibidince, it apparently belongs to a distinct genus, of which it is as yet the only representative. Head-forehead metallic green; top of head covered with long crest-feathers, white with dark chestnut tips, some of the most lengthened feathers wholly white; a full lengthened metallic green nuchal crest springs from beneath the white ones just mentioned, and is continued by the feathers of the neck of the same colour nearly to the mantle ; bare space around the eye bright red ; cheeks brownish; chin, throat, and sides of neck blackish brown; back, breast, and underparts reddish chestnut; wing white; scapulars reddish brown ; rump dark green, almost black ; tail dark blue with green reflections ; flanks and thighs bronzy green ; bill olive-green ?, brownish towards the tip ; legs and feet bright red. Total length 26 inches; wing 14, tail 7|, bill along culmen 5|, tarsus 2f. 15. HAGEDASHIA CHALCOPTERA1. Tantalus hagedash, Lath. Ind. Orn. (1790) vol. ii. p. 708. sp. 23. Ibis hagedash, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xvi. p. 19 ; id. Ency. Me'th. (1823) torn. iii. p. 1147 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 16; id. Isis (1829) p. 760; Less. Trait. Orn. (1831) p. 567. sp. 8; Schleg. Mus. P.-Bas (1863) livr. 4, p. 10 ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. (1870) p. 735 ; Heugl. Ornith. Nordost-Afr. (1873) Band ii. Abth. 1, p. 1141. Ibis chalcoptera, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. (1817) vol. xvi. p. 9; id. Ency. Meth. (1823) torn. iii. p. 1144 ; id. Gal. Ois. (1834) pl. 246 ; Wagl. Syst. Av. (1827) sp. 9. Geronticus hagedash, Gray, Gen. Birds (1849) vol. iii. p. 566. sp. 10; Hartl. Syst. Ornith. West-Afr. (1857) p. 231. sp. 656; Brehm, Jour, fiir Ornith. (1858) p. 330; Gurney, Ibis (1865) p. 274, (1868) p. 260 ; Layard B. S. Afr. (1867) p. 320. sp. 605 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. (1871) pt. iii. p. 40; Bocage, Jour, fiir Ornith. (1876) p. 300. Harpiprion hagedash, von Heugl. Syst. Uebers. Vog. Nordost- Afr. (1855) p. 313. sp. 635. Hagedashia caffrensis, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. (1857) vol. iii. p. 152 ; Gurney, Anders. B. Damar. Land (1872) p. 298. 1 Bonaparte (I. c.) and some others call this species " caffrensis, Licht. Cat. Hamb." Not having been able to examine this book, I do not know whether Lichtenstein'e name antedates that of Vieillot, or not. |