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spread of wiugs 32, wing 10-10.50, tail 2.25-2.50, tarsus i. 63-1. 85, 

 culmeii 1. 75-1. 80, its depth at nostrils .68, mid-toe and claw 2.45- 

 2.50. Hab. Guam and Saipan, also probably others of the Mari- 

 anas. Two of the downy young were secured, the general upper 

 coloring of which is brown ; there is a buffy spot on each side of 

 the rump ; the throat, neck and general under coloring is buffy ; 

 a wide and distinct superciliary line of buff ; a black line from the 

 upper mandible through the eye ; there is a splotch of brown at the 

 nape and another on the sides of the head below the ear ; upper 

 mandible black, lower yellowish ; feet brownish. 



Sub-family FUI/IGUI/IN^.— Sea Ducks. 



Ge;nus FUI/IGUI/A Stephens. 



15. Fuligula fuligula Linn. Tufted Duck. 



General color black, abdomen white ; tail feathers normal, not 

 particularly stiff ; head with crest; speculum white. Wing 8, tail 

 2.5, culmen 1.75, tarsus 1.12. General color of young and females 

 brown. Hab. Palaearcftic regions from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; 

 winters in China, Japan and India ; accidental in Polynesia. 



Order HERODIONES.-Herons, Storks, Bitterns, Etc. 



a'. Bill sharp-pointed and nearly straight, inner side of middle 

 toe-nail pecftinate, loral space bare, powder-down tracts present. 

 Family Ardcida-, Herons. 



b'. Tail feathers 10, bill with serrations, slightly notched. 

 C". Length about 21, yellowi.sh band down sides of 

 neck, culmen longer than tarsus. Genus Dupctor. 



C-. Length about 14. tibio-tarsus feathered to heel. 

 Genus Ardctta. 



b". Tail feathers 12 or more, bill without serrations, and 

 usually with a distinct notch, culmen longer than tarsus, length 

 about 22. Genus Demiegrctta . 



Genus DUPBTOR Heine & Reichenbach. 

 16. Dupetor flavicollis Lath. Yellow-necked Bittern. 



Aidra flaTHollis, I.ath., Ind. Orn., 1790, II., p. 701. 



Ardi-a pini/ci. Kaffl., Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII., p. 326. 



Ardca biliiirala, Ciiv., Mus. Paris. 



Aidciralla Jiavicollis, Salva., Ucc. Born., 1S74, p. 353; Oates, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. B. 



iggo. III., p. 231. 

 Dupetor JiavicoUis, Hein. &Reicheii., Nomencl. Mus. Hein., :8go (Sumatra), p. 30S ; Sharp, B. 



B. O., Club, XXXI., p. 31 ; Id., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXVI., p. 247. 



Only one specimen of this large bittern was seen. This was 

 shot near the Agafia river June ii, 1900, and proved to l^e a full 



