2. ARDEA. 73 



(1866); ,SW. ^ Sail}. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 199 (Upper & Lower 

 Ucayah) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 339 (Chili) ; id. ^- Sah: P. Z. 8. 

 1809, p. 634 (Conchitas) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. T( , no. 10103 

 (1871) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 300, 455 (1871 : Sapitiba ; Ypanema ; 

 Cuyaba; Cai^ara; Matogrosso; Rio Branco; Barado ; Rio Negro); 

 <Se/. (§r Salu. Not?ie?icl. Av. Neotr. p. 125 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, 

 p. 305 (Upper Amazons, universal) ; Hudson, P. Z. -S'. 1875, p. 629 

 (Buenos Ayres) ; Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 198 (Buenos Ayres) ; 

 W. A. Forbes, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 307; Bidffw. Bull. U.S. Geol. 

 Surv. IV. no. 1, p. 244 (1878) ; Gibso7i, Ibis, 1880, p. 158 (Cape 

 San Antonio) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1882, p. 47 (Corral, N.E. Peru) ; 

 ^^hlte, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 41 (Cordova); Barrows, Auk, i. p. 271 

 (1884: Entrerios); Baird, Brewer, S,- Bidffw. Water-B. N Amer 

 1. p. 6 (18X4) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 390 (1880) ; Sol. if Hudson, 

 Argent. Orn. ii. p. 93 (1889) ; Berkeley James, New List Chilian 

 B. p. 8 (1892: occasional visitor). 



Le Soeo, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 379 (1780). 



Cocoi Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 98 (1785). 



Garza aplomada, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 148 (1805). 



Ardea caerulescens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 413 (1817) 

 Licht. Nomeiicl. Av. Berol. p. 89 (1854: Montevideo). 



Ardea coco, Vieill. N. Diet. cFHist. Nat. xiv. p. 433 (1817). 



Ardea fuscicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 410(1817). 



Ardea plunibea, Merrem, in Ersch u. Grub. Bnci/cl. v. p 177 

 (1820). -^ ^ 



Ardea maguari, Spir, Av. Bras. tab. xc. (1824). 



Ardea major, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 116 (Chili). 



Ardea palliata, •' Illiyer," teste Hartlaub (sed uhi?), Licht. NomencI 

 p. 89 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour above light slaty blue, with greatly 

 developed scapular plumes, which are narrowed towards the ends, 

 where they gradually become white : lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform pale slaty blue ; wing-coverts also slaty blue, 

 the outer ones of all the series externally white ; bastard-wing^ 

 primary-coverts, and quills black : inner secondaries externalfy 

 slaty blue, and the innermost entirely slaty blue like the back ; 

 tail-feathers entirely slaty blue ; crown of head crested, blue-black' 

 including all the feathers round the eye ; crest long and drooping on 

 the nape ; sides of face, ear-coverts, entire neck, and throat creamy 

 white ; the plumes of the fore-neck greatly elongated and pure 

 white, the centre of the throat marked with a number of broad 

 black-striped feathers ; on each side of the chest a patch of blue- 

 black feathers; on the centre of the breast the white feathers 

 edged with black, producing a streaked appearance ; the sides of 

 the breast and abdomen black ; thighs and under tail-coverts white ; 

 sides of body and thighs light slaty blue, like the axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts ; the edge of the wing very conspicuously 

 white. Total length about 36 inches, culmen 6-1, wing 18-5, tail 

 7-1, tarsus 7*2. 



AdnJt female. Similar to the male in colour, but with the 

 elongated plumes not quite so strongly developed: "bill dark 

 yellow, base black, lower mandible vellow ; skin round the eye 

 pale green ; iris pale yellow " {F. Withinr/ton). Total length about 

 40 inches, culmen 5-6, wing 17-7, tail 7-2, tarsus &o. 



