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433. Cercibis oxycerca (fSpix). 

 Ibis oxt/cercus Spix, -If. Bms. II. (1825) p. G9 tab. 87 (Provinoia Parri). 



Altagracia: S6 18. xii. '07. 



Caicara: ? 5. viii., c?c? IT. iii., i). viii, 'lis. 



Quiribana de Caicara: JcT ad. and jiiv. In. iv. 'U8. 



" Iris .seal-brown (vandyke brown) ; t'eet lake-red (burnt carmine); claws black ; 

 bill viuaceous (hazel) rufous ; bare skin abont eye scarlet (lake-red) ; bare skin on 

 throat Chinese orange." 



(Nos. 8b51, 9291, lU.Jll, 10:^2, 19T.S3, 11UT4, 1107.5 Uherrie coll.) 



434. Eudocimus ruber (L.). 



Tantalus ruber Lin., Syst. Nat. Ed. XII. 1 (17tiO)'p. 241 [" America," ex Catesby (Bahamas), Brissou 

 (Cayenne). We take Cayrmie e.x Brissou as the typical locality]. 



Caicara: ? juv. 23. ii. '98. "Iris blue-grey ; feet greyish white : bill jiale 

 rosaceous cinnamon " (no. 10230 Cherrie coll.). 



435. Ardea cocoi L. 



Ardea cocoi Lin., Syat. Nat. Ed. XII. 1 (176G) p. 237 ('' Cayana," sc. Cayenne — ex Brisson). 



Caicara : S ad. 24. iii. '98. " Iris bright straw-yellow ; feet black ; bare skiu 

 about the eye blackish" (no. 10541 Cherrie coll.). According to Andre {The Caura 

 cliap. III. p. 12) it is common on the Caura. It is very wary. Called locally 

 Garza morena. 



430. Herodias egretta (Gm.). 



Ardm Egretta Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1 (1788) p. 629 {huh. in ins. 8. Dominici, ins. Falkland et Araer.* 

 australi, etc.). 



Caicara: S 24. iii. '98. "Iris straw-yellow; feet black; bill dark chrome 

 yellow ; bare skin about eyes and at base of bill citron-yellow."' ? 4. iii. '9b!. 

 (Nos. 11)379, 10542 Cherrie coll.) t 



4;!7. Florida caerulea (L.). 



Ardea caerulea Lin., Si/.tt. Nat. Ed. X. 1. (17.=j8) p. 14.? (" America septentr." We take as the typical 

 habitat Carolina ex Catesby). 



Caicara : tj 29. x. '98. " Iris straw-yellow ; feet dusky mouse-grey in front, 

 dusky sage-green behind : basal half of bill dark plumbeous, distal half lilack ; 

 bare skin about eyes (extending to posterior edge of nasal slit) dusky sage-green " 

 (no. 11274 Cherrie coll.). 



Mato River: cj 11. iii. 1900 (Klages). 



* \Vc take Cayenne (e.x Biiflon, Gmelin's first and principal soui-ce) as the typicU haljitat. 



There seems to be little doubt that Ardea galatra Molina, i^n/fgio tit. Nat. del Chili, libr. iv. (17H2) 

 p. 2.5, refers to tliis specie.', as Molina dcscrilies it as a large white heron, 2 £t. 7 in. higii, and with a 

 yellow beak of -1 in., only the misleading words " pcdibus coccineis " spoil his diagnosis. Molina's Ardea 

 thnla refero evidently to the Lenci>ithuy.r candidissima of recent authors, and fTnielin's Ardea ohula [Syst, 

 Nat. I. 2 (17SH) p. 033] is merely Molina's thnla. It must, therefore, not be quoted uiidur Ilirudiits 

 egretta, while Ardea thula of Molina is to be placed with L. caiididissima. 



t Mr. Andr6, in his book on the Caura (chap. II. p. 9)^ gives some interesting notes on the e.sport 

 of the feathers called " osprey " in the trade from Ciudad Bolivar, and on the way they are procured 

 in Venezuela. 



