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BUBULCUS BoxAP. 



1854.—BuhHlcu8 "PuCHERAX," Boxapartp:, Auu. Sc. Nat.,4 ser., I, ii, p. 141 {nomen 



nudum). 

 18b5.—Bubulcus "Pucheran," Boxaparte, Cousp. Av., II, p. 1'24 (type A. ihis 



Hasselqv.). 



(137.) Bubulcus coroniandus (Bood. ). 



Easteru Cattle Heron. Ama-sagi. 



1783. — Cancroma coromrtwrfaBoDDAERT, Tab!. Pl. Enl., j>.54. — Ardea c. Schlegel, Mus. 

 P.-Bas, Ardea», p. 30 (1863). — Buhulcui? eoronmndus Meyer, Joiirn. f. Orn., 

 1873,p. 40.5.— BLAKIST.& Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., X, 1882,p. 120.— Blakist., 

 Chrysauth., 1883, Apr., p. 173.— 7f?., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 41 (1884).— See- 

 BOHM, Ibis, 1884, p. 35. 



1788. — Ardea comata i3. Gmelin, S. N., I, ii, p. 633. 



1S17.— Ardea hicolor Vieillot, Nonv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XIV, p. 409. 



1817.—? Ardea ruJicajnUa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XIV, p. 409. 



1819. — Ardea coromandelensis Stephexs, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XI, ii, p. 577. 



1820. — Ardea deaurata Merrem, Ersch & Gruber's Encycl., 1 sect., V, p. 173. 



1822.— Ardea affinis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc., XIII (p. 189). 



1823.— Ardea Jiavirostris Vieillot, Enc. M6tb.,III, p. 1124. 



1823. — Ardea coromandeUca Lichtexsteix, Verz. DoubL, p. 78 {x)art). 



1827.— Ardea ?•«.?«« to Wagler, Syst. Av., p. 211, u. 12 (jwri).— Temm., Man. d'Oru., 2 ed., 

 Ill, p. lii (1835) ; IV, p. 377 (1840).— Temm. &. Schleg., Fauna Japou., Aves, 

 p. 115 {18i9).—E(jretta r, Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, i^. 224.— Herodias r. 

 Blakist. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 200. 



18'il.— Ardea cahoga* Fraxklix, P. Z. S., 1831, p. 124. 



In regard to the above syuoDymy I have ouly to remark that Merrem's 

 Ardea deaurata uudonbtedly belongs here, and not, as usually supposed, 

 to Ardeola ralloides, being based expressly upon Buflbn's " Crabier de 

 Coromandel" (PI. Enl., pl. 910), the same bird upon which Boddaert pre- 

 viously had bestowed the name Cancroma coromanda. 



The Eastern Cattle Heron has often been regarded as couspecific with 

 the Mediterranean Buhulcus ibis (Linn.), from which, however, it differs 

 in many important respects. In the white winter plumage tbe two birds 

 may be easily distinguished by the proportionately much smaller feet 

 of the latter, and especially by the shortness of the bare portion of the 

 tibite. It is asserted that it is in every way a smaller bird, but such is 

 hardly the case, as will be seen from the appended measurements. The 

 breeding plumages are also dilferently colored, for in B. ibis the elon- 

 gated plumes on head, lower end of fore neck, and back are of a nearly 

 uniform "reddish buff"; in B. coromandus, however, this color is con- 

 fined to the dorsal plumes, while the wljole head and neck are of a beau- 

 tiful golden ochraceous. 



The ground color of this species is white in all ages, and the richly- 

 colored plumes of the adults are only assumed early in spring, to be 

 dropped in the autumn, the bird being plain white during the winter. 



" S'ykes (P. Z. S., 1832, p. 158) quotes as authority for this name : "*Penn., Hindoos. 

 2. 158," which I am unable to place, unless Pennant's "Outlines of the Globe," vol.2, 

 Eastern Hindostau (London, 1798-1880), be meant, a book inaccessible to me. 



