A.BDEIDJS — THE HEBONB. L84* 



tfycticorax amerlcanut Bonap. Oomp. List, 1888, 48, 

 ffyotlcoraz vulgaris D'Obb. 01b, Cuba, 1889,298. 

 VycUoorax grit eui (part) Rbiohi m J. f. 0. 1*77.237. 



Bab. Thewholeofti ad tropical America, from British America to Chill and 



ilkland l ilands. Pai I ol the W< I Cndii 



Hi-. Char. Adult: PIl urn capillars, glossy blackish bottle green; 



forehead, po tocular, malar, and gulai i nd median lo 



and neck, exci pi In fronl , pale a ih-gray, with a slight Illaceous tinge; wings, rump, 

 upper tall-coverts and tail, dei i Occipital plumes pure white. Bill i 1 1 



and orbits yellowish green; li -How. claws bro 



(Audubon.) 1 Immature. Similar to the adult, but scapulars and Interscapulars liki 

 wings, and the white of the forehead ob cured \<y the blackish of the '-/own; the colors 



bre, with neck and lower pari more decidedly ashy. Young: Ab< 

 grayish brown, with more or less of a cinnamon ca \ i pecially on the remiges, i 

 teatb I lyith a median teai baped or wedge white, the reml 



with small white tern Inal spots; rectrices plain a ih gray. Bide i ol the bead and neck, and 

 entire lower parts* striped longitudinally with and dull white; chin and 



throat plain white medially. Bill llghl apple-green, the upper half of the maxilla blackleh, 

 mandible with a tinge of the theend; lores llghl apple green; eyelids simi- 



lar but lighter, mon their Inm ick; irte dark chrome-yellow or dull 



; legs and feet light yellowish apple-gi grayish horn color. 3 



Length about 2i.00-26.00; expanse, 44.00. Weight, i lb. J) <>■/.. (Audubob). Wing, 11.00- 

 12 B0; tail, 4.20 5.80; culmen, 2.80 3.10; <lo|,t.li of bill. .70, K; tarsu 8.10 3.40; ml 

 tion of tibia. ,90 1. 40." 



Si i',<;i;m;s Nyctanassa Stejnegi 



Nyctherodius Bbioh. 8y.st.Av. \K,t, p. rvl {neo Nycterodius Macoili 



Ardea i iolat > a I 

 Ny etcmai »Hn in. Proc.U. S.Nat. Mus.x.sig. 19, Aug. 3,188; 



, l cab. If edlum-slzed Heron , of short, thick build; the bill extremely thick 

 and stout, with both outlines strongly convex; the lega long ari'l slender; the dorsal 

 plumes much elongated and very na beyondthe tall; the occiput (In ad 



with everal extremi ly long, linear whiti feat! 



Bill short, and yery stout, the culmen curved regularly from tfa 

 cidedlycbi much ascending; 4 maxlllai , straight 



throughout, bul appreciabl 

 theba e; mandibular tomlumne: rht, butpen 



1 A cap men had the Iris and - m 



to June 80th, the only portion of thi 

 d feet uniform lli 



' neck, without -• 



rton, /' C 

 ! irth and Middle \ i 



* Thi tllne of the bill is, in fact, m 



d< rable yai 



• decidedly < onvex in the middi 



ii U and thi 



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