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Only to be distinguished from the foregoing by its smaller size. 

 Measurements of the wings of eleven specimens indicate that the indi- 

 vidual variation in this form runs between 340'"'^ and SOO"^"^. In veri- 

 fication of this I have appended a table of measurements derived from 

 Captain Blakiston's manuscript notes. 



MeasureTnenis. 



21240 Stimpson, 175 



109448 I Namiye 



109449 !....do 



Henson, 116 



cT ad. 

 ? ad. 

 d ad. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Liu Kiu Island ... Dec. — , 1854 



Joshiu, Hondo i June 21, 1886 



...do June 21, 1886 



Hakodate, Tezo... July 10,1884 



106 164 112 



1 



nil 157 112 

 103i loo! 105 

 162: 162' 110 



Remarks. 



Tibia dark ; 



bill light. 

 Tibia light; 



bill black. 

 Tibia light; 



bill black. 

 Tibia light; 



biU black. 



Blalciston^s measurements o/ Herodias modest.\. 



Subgenus Garzetta Kaup. 



(135.) Herodias intermedia (W.\gl.). 



lutermediate Egret. Chiu-sagi. 



1829. — Ardea intermediaWAGLER, Isis, 1829, p. 659. — Schlegel, Mus. P.-Bas, Arde;e, p. 

 19, (1863). — Efjretta i. Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 224. — Herodias i, 

 Blytii, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. Bong. (p. 279) (1849).— Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 

 p.27. — Blak. & Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p.200.— iid., ibid., X, 

 1882, p. 119. 



1829. — Ardea melanopus Wagler, Lsis, 1829, p. 659 {nee Blyth). 



1831— ?..iI>Y?ert nigrirostris J. E. Gray, ZooL, Miscell., p. 19.. 



1840. — Ardea egrettoidea Tammixck, Man. d'Orn.,2 ed., IV, p. 374 (/(ec S. G. Gmel.. 

 1774). — Temm. & ScHLEG., Fauna Japon. Aves, p. 115 (pi. Ixix). 



1854. — ? Herodias hrachyrhynchos Brehm, Journ. f. Orn.,1854, p. 80. 



1884. — Herodias plamiferus Ridgway, Water B. N. Am., I, p. 23 {nee Gould) 



I have questioned the propriety of referring J. E. Gray's A. nigrirostris 

 to the present species, because he gives the middle "foe with claw as 



