8. NOTOPHOYX. Ill 



as I can judge, the differences are individual, as both white and 

 black-eared birds occur in the same locality. It may be that the 

 white-eared birds are very old individuals. 



Hah. Australia to the Celebes and the Moluccas, probably to New 

 Guinea ; New Caledonia ; Loyalty Islands ; New Zealand. 



a. Ad. sk. Spring Bay, Tasmania. Maitland Somerville, 



Esq. 



b. S ad. sk. Tasmania, Apiil 23. Hume Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Australia. Hume Coll. 



e. f, (J. Ad. et New South Wales. Imperial Institute 

 iuv. sk. [P.]. 



A, 2. Ad. et iuv. New South Wales. Australian Museum 



'sk. [P.]. 



k. Ad. St. New South Wales. Australian Museum 



[P.]. 

 /, m. Ad. sk. South Australia [J. Gould). Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



n. Ad. sk. South Australia. C. D. E. Fortuum, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 0,2^. Ad.sk. Queensland (/. T. Cockerel/). Sal vin-Godmau Coll. 



f/. c? ad. sk. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



r, s. Ad. St. E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



t. 2 ad. sk. N. Caledonia, Nov. 1.3 {E. L. Seebohm Coll. 



Layard). 



2. Notophoyx pacifica. 



Pacific Heron, Lafh. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 30o (1801 : Australia). 



.\rdea pacifica, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sujjpl. p. Ixv (1801) ; Jard. ^- Selby, 

 III. Orn. pi. 90 (1830) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1844 : 

 S. Austraha ; W. Australia ; King George's Sound) ; id. Gen. B. 

 iii. p. ooS (1847) ; Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. .52 (1847) ; Eeichenb. 

 Voff. Keuholl. p. 35, no. 324 (1849) ; id. Grail, tab. 154. fig. 2400 

 (1849) : Bj). Consp. Av. ii. p. 112 (1855) ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, 

 p. 197 (N. Austraha) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardete, p. 7 (1863: 

 Australia ; Tasmania) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 297 (1865) ; 

 Grail, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 27, no. 10101 (1871); Reichen. J.f. O. 

 1877, p. 263 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Son. N. S. W. i. p. 191 (1877) ; 

 Casfeln. i$- Ramsay, f . c. p. 386 (Norman River, Gulf of Carpentaria) 

 Ramsay, oj). cit. ii. p. 198 (1878: Austraha generally) ; Bennett, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. pp. 324-328 (1883) ; Ramsay, op. cit. 

 (2) i. p. 1100 (1887 ; Derby, N.W. AustraUa), (2) ii. p. 172 (1888) ; 

 id. Tab. List Austr. B. p. 21 (1888 : the whole of Australia except 

 Cape York, and Tasmania) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. W. (2) 

 iii. p. 1178 (1889: Cumberland Co., N. S. W.) ; id. Nests i^- Ey,gs 

 Austr. B. p. 317 (1889) ; Co.v S,- Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 

 (2) iv. p. 420 (1890: Mudgee Distr.). 



Ai-dea bullaxagang, Wayl. Syst. Ac, Ardea, p. 175, sp. 5 (1827). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy olive-green, the long 

 ornamental feathers slaty grey ; the scapular plumes maroon, with 

 slaty-grey tips ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts slaty grey, 

 glossed with olive-green ; wing-coverts glossy green, all those round 

 the tip of the wing white, as also the edge of the wing ; the primarj'- 

 coverts and primarj'-quills blackish, externally slaty grey ; second- 

 aries glossy green ; tail-feathers dark slate-colour, blackish towards 

 the ends ; head and neck pale vinous isabelline ; throat white in the 



