8. NOTOPHOYX. 109 



/, g, h. S ad. ; i. Corpus Christi, May, Aug. (F. Salviu-Godman Coll 



S ad. sk. B. AvmHtmmi). 



k. Ad. sk. Cozumel Island, June {G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gaumer). 

 I, m. Ad. sk. Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan. Salvin-Godman Coll 



(O. S.). 



8. NOTOPHOYX. 



Bange. Australia, probably to Xew Guinea, and certainly to Xew 

 Zealand, New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the Moluccas. 



-Ken ^0 the Species. 



a. Size larger : bill black, lighter on the lower 



mandible. 

 a'. No white streaks on the breast and abdo- 

 men ; axillaries grey or vinaceous grey; 



elongated dorsal plumes grey, with no 



maroon feathers ; sides of chest vinaceous ; 



head and neck grey, the forehead, eye- 



brow, and throat white novce hollandice, p. 109. 



. ±$reast and abdomen with large lanceolate 



streaks of white ; axillaries slaty blackish 



like the under wing-coverts ; many of 



the elongated dorsal feathers maroon with 



slaty-grey ends ; a large maroon patch of 



feathers on the side of the chest ; head 



and neck vinaceous or white, with some 



black markings on the lower throat .... pacifica, p. Ill 



b. Size small : entire bill yellow. 



e'. Crown, crest, and sides of face black; 



cheeks, throat, and neck white .' picata, p. 112 



d'. Head and neck all round, as well as the 



entire under surface of the body, white . aruensis, p. 113. 



1. Notqphoyx nov» hoUandiae. 



White-fronted Heron, Phillip, Voy. Bot. Bay, p. 163 cum tab. (1789 • 

 -fort Jackson) : Lcdh. Gen. Syn. Sujjpl. ii. p. 304. 



Ardea novre hollandi£e, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 701 (1790) • Vieill \ 

 Bict. a Hist. Nat xiv p. mjnec 436) (1817) ; 8tephe>^ in Shaw's 



?Tin n «^^Q- ? ■ \f f " ^^f ^^1' ^- ^^''"- ^"-^- ^"'"^- ^« ^^<^lk<^^^^- 

 p. 110 (lb39-44 : Moluccas) ; Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 53 (1847) • 



n«?Q\^'^- ;?.• "// ?; ^^^ {^^-^'^ ' ^«'«/'««6. roff. Neuholl. p. .3(i 

 (1849) ; td. Grail. Aovit. tab. 154. figs. 2398-99 (1850) • Macoill 

 Narr.Voy.Rattlesn. ii. p. 358 (1852: N.E. coast Australfa) : 

 Schl. Mas Pays-Bas Ardes, p. 28 (1863: Australia; Timor: 

 bumbawa) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 299 (1805^- F;„<nh 



^' qQ. ?^ \ \i ^'"^'^ ^^^; •■ -^^fanuvolka) ; Hutton,Ibis, 1870, 

 ?il-i . (^^^'Ji/'kan Harbour) ; Gray, Ilaml-l. B. iii. p. 28, no. 10117 

 (lb<l) ; Luller, B. Aew Zeal. p. 231, pi. 24. iio- 2 ri87Si • Pp1~ 

 Ibrs, 1873, p 120; FM,J^ }. O. i«?4, p. 19% (Ne^w ZeiiaS~; 

 Eosenb. Retst. naar Geelvmkb. p. 118 (1875) ; Reichmi. J. f. O. 



