t. c. p. 78 (Teneriffe, ? breeding) ; Guillcm. t. c. p. 110 (J.amaka, 

 Cyprus); Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. '1\ (1888: liichmond & 

 Clarence Rivers; N. S. W. ; Victoria) ; Hmne, >Sti: F. xi. p. 332 

 (1888: Manipur) ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 178 (S. AtVhauistau) ; 

 Lilford, t. c. p. 343 (Cyprus) ; Eatjle Clarke, t. c. p. 55U (East. 

 Pyrenees); lieichen. Syst. Verz. Vog. Beutschl. p. 41 (1889); 

 Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 335 (1889) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1890, p. 404 

 (Co. Waterford) ; Brusina, Motr. etc. (Orn. Croat.) p. 72 (1890) ; 

 Seebohm, B. Japan. Emp.^. 215 (1891 : all island.^) ; Gdtke, Vogelw. 

 Helyol. p. 409 (1891) ; Madardsz, Aust. Ungar. Vdy.j). lOo (1891) ; 

 Reiser, Voyels. Landesm. Sarajevo,-^. 110 (1891) ; Frwaldsh-y, Av. 

 Huny. p. 127 (1891) ; Turle, Ibis, 1891, p. 7 (Blasket Is., breeding) ; 

 Evans, t. c. p. 70 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 112 (Fao) ; Sty an, t. c. pp. 327, 

 491 (Lower Yaiigtse, breeding); Sharpe, Rep. 2nd Yark. Miss., 

 Aces, p. 124 (1891 : Wooler Lake, Cashmere ; Baramula); Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 22 (Heligoland) ; Sibree, t. c. j). 116 (Madagascar) ; 

 Campbell, t. c. p. 244 (Corea) ; De la Vouche, t. c. p. 487 

 (Foocliow & Swatow); Hartert, t. c. p. 512 (E. Prussia) ; Barnes, 

 Ibis, 1893, pp. 173, 1»1 (Aden) ; Meade- Waldo, t. c. p. 198 

 (Canaries, inbreeding) ; Blagg, t. c. p. 354 (Noss, Shetlands, breed- 

 ing) ; Styan, t. c. p. 434 (Hainan) ; Reichen. Vdg. Deutsch-Ost- 

 Afr. p. (35 (1894: Kingani). 



Ardea major, Linn. Syst. yat. i. p. 236 (1766); Gm. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 627 (1768) ; J'ieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 400 (1817) ; 

 Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 311 (1825). 



Le Heron Comuiun, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 342 (1781). 



Johanna Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 100 (1785). 



Ardea johauuae, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 629 (1788). 



Ardea sheuaiia, Sander, Naturf. xiii. p. 195 (1779) ; Vieill. Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 415 (1817). 



Ardea vulgaris, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 255 (1803). 



Ardea brag. Is. Geoffr. St.-Uil. in Jacquem. Voy. iv. Ois. p. 85, pi. 8 

 (1844); Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. Ill (1855); Tacz. J. f. O. 1874, 

 p. 336; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 258 (1876: Argun). 



Ardea leucophaea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 58. 



Ardea cineracea, Brehm, J'dg. Deutschl. p. 580 (1831). 



Ardea cinerea, major, minor, etc., A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. 

 L. Brehm, p. 12 (1866: teste Dresser). 



Ardea cinerea, var. brag, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. QS (1873 : 

 breeding). 



Adult in hreedirKj-plumage. General colour above light ashy 

 grey, the scapular plumes, as well as the parapteral feathers and 

 innermost secondaries, elongated, and forming narrow drooping 

 plumes of pearly grey or white ; the wing-coverts grey like the back, 

 the outer ones pearly grey or white, the greater series dark ashy, 

 the outer webs entirely white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills purplish black, the secondaries shaded with grey externally, 

 the inner secondaries like the back ; tail-feathers entirely grey ; 

 crown of head crested, white in the centre, with a broad band of 

 purplish black on each side, ending in a crest on the occiput, and 

 having two elongated nuchal plumes ; entire sides of face, neck all 

 round, and under surface of body white, with a creamy-lilac shade 

 ou each side of the fore-neck and chest, which have drooping plumes 

 of narrow elongated white feathers ; the whole of the lower throat 



