112 ARDEID^. 



centre, with a few black spots, the feathers of the fore-nect elongated 

 and pointed, with white at the ends: remainder of under surface 

 blackish, with broad longitudinal streaks of white ; sides of body 

 and hanks, as well as the under wing-coverts and axillaries, uniform 

 dark slate-colour ; on each side of the upper breast a patch of dark 

 maroon feathers, some of them mesially streaked with white : "upper 

 mandible black, lower part of under mandible yellowish olive in 

 some specimens and yellowish horn-colour in others ; upper part of 

 tarsi yellowish olive, feet black ; orbits greenish yellow, becoming 

 more yellow immediately before and round the eye ; iris in some 

 specimens rich primrose-yellow, and in others verj- dark brown " 

 {J. Gould). 



Winter- plumage. More green above than in the full plumage, and 

 not showing the slaty-grey ornamental plumes or maroon scapulars 

 characteristic of the latter. 



Young. More dingy in colour than the adults, the head grey, and 

 the neck thickly spotted with black ; under surface dusky grey, 

 streaked with white in the centre of the body. 



Mr. Gould mentions that some specimens of this Heron have the 

 neck wholly white. One such bird is in the Museum Collection, 

 and I think it probable that this may be the dimorjihic form of the 

 species. 



Hah. Australia. 



a, b. Ad. sk. New South Wales. Imperial Institute [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. S. Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



d e. Ad. sk. Depot, interior of Australia, Capt. Sturt [P.]'. 



lat. 29° 40', May. 



f, g. Ad. sk. Queensland (/. T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. N.W. Australia {T. H. Capt. Bowyer Bower 



Boivyer Boicer). [P-]- 



3. Notophoyx picata. 



Ardea (Ilevodias) picata, Gojild, F. Z. S. 1845, p. 62 (Port 

 Essington). 



Herodias picata, Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 62 (1846) ; Rekhenh. Vog. 

 NeuhoU. p. ;j8 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 120 (1855) ; id. C. R. 

 xl. p. 722 (1855) ; Gould, Hcmdb. B. Austr. ii. p. 306 (1865) ; 

 Rammy, Proc. Linn. Sue N. S. W. i. p. 192 (1877 : N. Australia), 

 ii. p. 199 (1878 : Port Darwin ; Port Essington ; Gulf of Carpen- 

 taria) ; id. Tab. Lid Austr. B. p. 21 (1888). 



Ardea picata, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 25 (1849) ; id. P. Z. S. 1858, 



Straits) ; Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 28, no. 10118 (1871) ; Reichen, 

 J. f. O. 1877, p. 262 ; Rosenb. Malay. Archip. p. 278 (1878-79 : 

 Ceiebes), p. .373 (Aru Isl.) ; UAlb. Ann. Mus. Gen. xiv. p. 131 

 (1879: FlyE.); Schl. Notes Leyd. Mus. i. p. 114 (1879: Aus- 

 tralia ; Aniboiua ; Celebes) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. xviii. p. 332 

 (1882); id. Orn. Papuada etc. in. p. 343 (1882); Bdttik. Notes 

 Lvyd. Mus. viii. p. 67 (1886 : Tenimber Isl.) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. 

 Papuasia, iii. p. 205 (1891). 



