90 AEDEID^. 



b. Bill yellow in summer and winter. 



a'. Larger; with an immense train of decom- 

 posed feathers reaching far beyond the 

 tail ; tibiae black like the toes egretta, p. 9y. 



b'. Train of decomposed feathers short, and 

 scarcely reaching beyond the tail ; tibife 

 light-coloured ; tarsi and toes dark timoriensix, p. 



1. Herodias alba. 



Le Heron blanc, Briss. Orn. v. p. 428 (1760) : Daubent. PI. Enl viii, 



p. 886 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 365 (1780). 

 Ardea alba, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 239 (1766) ; Gm. Si/st. Nat. i, 



p. 639 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 414 (1817) ; 



Ball. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 120 (1826) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv. 



pi. 276 (1837) ; Keys ^ Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. Ixxix (1480) ; Selys- 



Longch. Faun. Bely. p. 132 (1842) ; 8chl. Rev. Crit. p. xcvii 



(1844) ; Milhle, Beitr. Orn. Griechenl. p. 112 (1844) ; Hetvits. 



Egqs Brit. B. ii. p. 274, pi. 7-5. fig. 1 (1846) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. . 



p. 555 (1847) ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 190 (1854) ; Li7iderm. Vog. 



Griechenl. p. 149 (1860) ; Poivys, Ibis, 1860, p. 346 (Epirus) ; Schl. 



Dier. Nederl. Vogels, pi. 19. fig. 6 (1801) ; Hartl. Faun. Madag. 



p. 74 (1861) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ai-deee, p. 16 (1863) ; Gray, 



List Brit. B. p. 146 (1863); Adams, /6is, 1864, p. 31 (Egypt); 



Wright, t. c. p. 143 (Malta) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1868, p. 325 (Palestine) ; 



Schl. Sj- Pollen, Faun. Madag., Ois. p. 123 (1868) ; Saundeis, Ibis, 



1869, p. 181 (S. Spain) ; Bon/gr. Vogelf. Norddeufschl. p. 122 

 (1809); Godman, Azores, p. 34 (1870); Elwes S,- Buckleij, Ibis, 



1870, p. 333 (Macedonia); Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr.' p. 686 

 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 27, no. 10108 (1871) ; R. Gray, 



B. West Scotl. p. 277 (1871 : Haddingtonshire) ; Harting, Handb. 

 Br. B. p. 149 (1872) ; G. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1872, p. 232 (Ismid : 

 Crete) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Abth. i. ^. 1063 (1873: Tana 

 Lake; Adowa ; Lake Menzaleh ; Blue and White Niles) ; Severtz. 

 Turkest. Jevotn. p. 68 (1873) ; Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 148 (Anda- 

 nians) ; Dresser Sf- Blanf. t. c. p. 336 ; Buckley, t. c. p. 390 

 (Limpopo) ; Danf. i^- Ilarvie-Broivn, Ibis, 1875, p. 424 (Transyl- 

 vania) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 325 ; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 295 

 (1876: Baluchistan); Iteichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 13 (Loango), 

 p. 272 (crit.) ; Hartl. Vog. Madaq. p. 298 (1877) ; Finsch, Ver- 

 handl. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxix. p. 248 (1879: Lake Alakul, May) ; 

 Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 231, pi. 398 (1880) ; Milne-Ediuards i<( 

 Grandid. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 548 (1882) ; Holub^Pelz. 

 Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 273 (1882: Hart's Eiver; Molapo River): 



C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 123 (Candahar) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. 

 p. 108 (1883); Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 32 (Caucasus); Eagle 

 Clarke, Ibis, 1884, p. 146 (Hungary) ; Saunders, ed. Yarrell, Brit. 

 B. iv. p. 177 (1884) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 477, pi. 38 

 (1884) ; Tristr. Faun. ^- Flor. Palest, p. 110 (1884) ; Ay res. Ibis, 

 1885, p. 349 (Transvaal) ; Emin, Scottish Geogr. Mag., June 1887, 

 p. 276 (Albert Nyanza) ;. St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 178 (Candahar) ; 

 Lilford, t. c. p. 343 (Cyprus) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 359 

 (1889) ; Sibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 116 (Madagascar). 



Ardea egrettoides, S. G. Gmelin, Reis. Sibir. ii. p. 193, Taf. 25 (1774) ; 



Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 211 (1869). 

 Ardea gurzetta major, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 55 (1783). 



