68 ARDEID^E. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being much duller, the rufous 

 of the head and neck not so bright, and all the wing-coverts tipped 

 with rufous or rusty buff; the breast is white, below broadly 

 streaked with rusty edges to the feathers. 



The British Museum received from the India Museum in 1880 

 an Indian specimen of A. goliath, which had doubtless been 

 forwarded to England by Mr. Blyth when he procured the historical 

 specimens, which are still the only ones known to have occurred 

 within the limits of India. Mr. Hume (Str. F. vii. p. 49fJ) relates 

 that he not only watched the Calcutta market for some years in 

 the hopes of obtaiuing a specimen of the Great Heron, but had 

 even offered a large reward for one. He never succeeded in 

 getting a sjjecimen, nor could he find anybody who knew the bird at 

 all. The specimen from the India Museum is a young bird, and is 

 identical with another specimen in the Museum from South Africa. 



The Uiant Heron from Suakin seems to me to be somewhat 

 different from that inhabiting South Africa. It is miich lighter and 

 more pearly grej', and with the neck of a delicate vinaceous colour, 

 quite different to the rufous or chestnut colour of the neck in the 

 South-African bird. Total length about 50 inches, culmon 6'5, 

 wing 20-5, tail 9*8, tarsus 8-1. 



Bab. Africa generally. Once recorded from ludia. 



a. Imm st. Africa. Zoological Society. 



b, c. Imm. sk. South Africa. Purchased. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Durban, Natal, Sept. (Gordye). Shelley Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Sharpe Coll. 



Nov. 30 (T. Ayres). 



f. Ad. sk. Upper Shir6 River {A. Whyte). H. H.Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [P.]. 

 //. 2 ad. sk. Suakin, Feb. Capt. Curtis [P.]. 



h Imm. sk. Calcutta {Blyth). India Museum. 



i. Skeleton (imperf.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Skeleton. South Africa. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



"2. Ardea sumatrana. 



Ardea sumatrana, Baffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 32-5 (1822) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. iii. p. 556 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. Beng. 



p. 278 (1849) ; Jerd. B. hid. iii. p. 740 (1864) ; Gould, Handb. B. 



Austr. ii. p. 1^96 (1865) ; Ramsay, R Z. S. 1868, p. 387; Walden, 



Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 98 (1872); Saluad. Ucc. Born. p. 344 (1874); 



Blyth, B. Burm. p. 159 (1874); Halvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. x. 



p. 165 (1877); Ramsay, Proc. L{?m. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 198 



(1877) ; Reichen. J.f. (). 1877, p. 267 ; Hime, Str. F. vi. p. 469 



(1878), viii. p. 114 (1879); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 332 



(1882). 

 Ardea typhon, Temm. Pi. Cul. pi. 475 (1829) ; Less. Traite, p. 576 



(1831); Reiche7ib. Syst. Av. Taf. cchx. fio-. 466; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 



p. 555 (1847); id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 363 (Batchiau); Schl. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Ardeaj, p. 3 (1863) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 18o3,p. 487 (Flores) ; 



Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 183 (1865) ; Schl. N. T. D. iii. p. 348 



(1866: Aru Isl.) ; Rose7ib. Malay. Arch. pp. 109, 278, 373 



(1878-79). 

 Ardea rectirostiis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 22 (N. S. W.) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. in. i^. 5m (1847); Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 54 (1848); 



