116 ABDEID,?;. 



to Mozambique on the East Coast, and from Senegambia to Gaboon 

 on the West. 



a. Ad. St. Senegambia. Governor Randall 



[C.]. _ 



b. c? ad. alb. sk. Kufisque, Senegal. L. Laglaize [C.]. 

 [t. 3-5]. 



c. d, e. ad. sk. [t. 3-6- Accra, May, July (J. Shelley Coll. 

 3-9J. Smith). 



f. Ad. sk. [t. 3-5]. River Niger. Dr. Baikie [C.]. 



g. Juv. sk. [t. 3'5]. Cameroons. Sir R. Burton [PJ. 

 h. Juv. sk. ft. 3-1]. River Ogow6, Gaboon. H. T. Ansell, Esq. 



[P.]. 



r. Ad. sk. [t. 3-9]. S.E. Madagascar, March. Shelley Coll. 



7c. Juv. sk. [t. 4'1]. Madagascar (i?e?('sAer). Shelley Coll. 



l,m. 2 ad. sk. [t. 4-3- Dissee Island, Annesley W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



4-6]. Bay, Aug. 30. [C.]. 



w. 9 alb. sk. rt. 4-11. Massowa, Aug. 25. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



o. 2 ad. sk. [t. 3'95]. Massowa, Aug. 26 ( W. Tweeddale Coll. 



Jesse). 



p,q. Ad. sk. [t. 4-3- Suakin. Surgeon-Capt. R, H. 



4-75]. Pen ton [P.]. 



r. Ad. sk. [t. 3-9]. Jeddah {Zorhab). Shelley Coll. 



s. Imm. sk. White Nile. Sir F.'Galton [P.]. 



2. Lepterodius asha. 



Ardea asha, Sykes, P. Z. 8. 1832, p. 157 (Deccan) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 556 (1847) ; BIyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 38. 



Herodias asha, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p, 280 (1849 : Indian 

 Renins.). 



Demiegretta asha, Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 747 (1864) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 477 (Cevlon); Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 418 (Kathi- 

 awar) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 490 (Fao), 1891, p. 112. 



Ardea sacra (pt.), Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 28, no. 10120 (1871). 



Ardea gularis (wee Bosc), Hume, Nests cV Eyys Ind. B. p. 617 (1873) ; 

 Blnnf. East. Persia, ii. p. 296 (1876: Gwadar) ; Leyye, B. Ceylon, 

 p. 1136 (1880). 



Demiegretta gularis (nee Bosc), Hume, Str. F. i. pp. 45, 138, 254 

 (1873: Karachi Harbour ; Mekran Coast), iv. p. 23 (1876 : Coasts 

 of Sind and Kutch) ; Fairhanl-, t. c. p. 263 (Deccan) ; Hume, t. c. 

 pp. 414, 421, 465 (Laccadives) ; Butler, Str. F. v. p. 224 (1877: 

 Mandavee); Darid.son ^- ll'enden, Str. F. vii. p. 95 (1878: 

 Deccan) ; Hume, t. c. p. 453 (Mandavee) ; id. Str. F. viii. p. 114 

 (1879); Vidal, t. c. p. 173 (S. Konkan) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. 

 p. m (1879) : id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. ti-2 (1880: Belgaum) ; 

 Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 89 (1880 : S. Konkan) ; Butler, t. c. p. 434 

 (1881) ; Murray, Vertehr. Faun. Sind, p. 271 (1884) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 168 (Muscat), p. 490 (Fao) ; Gates, ed. Hume's Ne.fts 

 <§• Fyys Ind. B. iii. p. 244 (1890 : Mekran Coast). 



Adult male. Similar to L. gularis, but much paler and more 

 slaty blue above and below, the decorative plumes on the fore-neck 

 and on the lower back inclining to pearly grey, as do also the two 

 long ornamental feathers of the nape : " bill yellow, brownish on 

 the upper mandible : legs black ; feet greenish ; iris pale yellow " 



