74 ARDEID^. 



Young. A little browner than the adults and, of course, devoid 

 of all drooping i)lumes ; the head much browner than the adults, 

 or having the blackish feathers brown-shafted ; under surface of 

 body almost entirely white, with only a few black streaks ou the 

 breast : " lower mandible yellow, as also the lower edge of the 

 upper one ; iris light yellow " {F. Withington). 



Sab. South America. 



a. Ad. St. South America. Lieut. Maw [P.], 



b. Ad. sk. South America. Old Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. St. Joseph Bay, E. Patagonia. Sir \V. Burnett & 



Admiral Fitzroy 

 [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Chili. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 /. 5 juv. sk. Belgrano, Buenos Ayres, H. Durnford, Esq. 



Dec. 2, 1876. ' [C.]. 



(/, h. 2 ^cb et Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Sclater Coll. 

 juv.sk. Ayres, May, Ajn-il {F. 



Withington). 

 i. Ad.sk. Bahia, Brazil (Z'r. WucJterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. (S ad. sk. Pebas, E. Peru, Oct. 17 (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ifauxwell). 



7. Ardea cinerea. 



The Heron or Heroushaw, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 64, pi, 67 



(1738). 

 The Common Heron, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 7?,, pi. 78 (1740) ; 



Lath.Gen. Sy7i. iii. pt. 1, p. 83 (1785); Yarr. Br. B. ii. p. 444 (1843). 

 Le H6ron, Briss. Orn. v. p. 392, i)l. x.xxiv. (1760) ; Daubent. PI. 



Enl. viii. pi. 787. 

 Le Heron hupe, Bviss. Orn. v. p. 396, pi. xxxv. (1760) ; Daubent. PI. 



Enl. viii. pi. 755. 

 Le Heron cendr6, Briss. Orn. v. p. 403 ^1760). 

 Le Ht5ron tachet6, Briss. Orn. v. p. 410 (1760). 

 Ardea cinerea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 236 (1766) ; Gm. St/st. Nat. i. 



p. 627 (1788); Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 116 (1811) ; 



Temm. Man. (VOrn. ii. p. 567 (1820) ; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xiii. p. 188 (1820); Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, ])1. 23 (1827); 



Brehm, Vog. Deutsehl. p. 580 (1831; ; Minetr. Cat. Pais. Cauc. 



p. 49 (1832) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 273 (1837) ; Naum. Yog. 



Deutsehl. ix. p. 24, pi. 220 (1838) ; Bj). Cunip. List B. Eur. ^V N. 



Amer. p. 47 (1838) ; Crespon, Orn. Gard, p. 379 (1840) ; Keys. 



u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. Ixxix, 218 (1840) ; Nordm. in Dcmid. 



Yog. Puss. Merid. iii. p. 258 (1840) ; Selys-Lo7igch. Faun. Belg. 



p. 132 (1842); Schl. Rev. Grit. p. cxvi'(1844); Miihle, Orn. 



Griecheni. p. 113 (1844) ; Gray, List Grail, in Brit. Mus. p. 76 



(1844); Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail, pi. 61. fig. 1, 



no. 646 ; id. w* Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844) ; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 



p. 120 (1845) ; Gray, Cat. Mamrn. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 133 



(1846) ; Hewits. Eqgs Brit. B. ii. p. 269, pi. Ixxiv. tig. 1 (1846) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 555 (1847) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. 



p. 278 (1849 : Calcutta) ; Te}}i7n. S,' Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 114 (1850) ; 



TAomps. B. Irel. ii. p. 133 (1850) ; Kjcerb. Damn. Fugle, pi. xxxii. 



fig. 1 (1852) ; Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 440 (1852) ; Schl. Vog. 



NederL-ph. 186, 187 (1854); Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 289; Bp. 



