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14. AGAMIA. 



Type. 



Agamia, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Xcit. p. xvi (1852) A. ao-ami. 



Dorypliorus, Reichenow, J.f. O. 1877, p. 259 A. ao-ami. 



Doriponus, Reichenow, in Heine Sf Reichen. Nomencl. Mas 



Hein. p. 308 (1890) A. agami. 



Range. From Mexico throughout Central America and South 

 America to Southern Brazil. 



1. Agamia agami. 



Heron bvun de Cayenne, D'Aiihent. PI. Enl.vm. pi. 8-58 (youno-). 



Le H^ron Agami de Cayenne, U Anient. PL Enl. viii. pi. 859. 



Le H(5ron Agami, Buff.' Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 383 (1780). 



Agami Heron, Lath. Gen. Si/n. iii. pt. 1, p. 97 (1785). 



Ardea agami, Gfn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 629 (1788) ; rieill. N. Diet, 

 a Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 404 (1817) ; Wacil. Syst. Av., Ardea, p. 182, 

 sp. 21 (1827) ; Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1844 : Cayenne; 

 British Guiana) ; Tschudi >§• Cab. Faun. Periian., Aves, pp. oO, 297 

 (1845-46); Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 556 (1847); Cab. in Schotnb. 

 Reis. Guia7i. iii. f. 753 (1848) ; Burni. Th. Bras. iii. p. 414 (1856) ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardeffi, p. 11 (1863: Cayenne; Surinam; 

 Mexico) ; Scl. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 567 (Ucayali), 1867, p. 754 

 (Yurimaguns) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 29, no. 10131 (1871) • 

 Pek. Orn. Bras. pp. 301, 455 (1871 : Villa Maria, Aug. ; Caicara^ 

 Jan. ; Matto Grosso, Aug., Oct., JVov. ; Barro do Rio Negro, Sept., 

 Oct.) ; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 303 (Nauta) ; iid. "Nomejicl. 



Ardea fusca, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 700 (1790 : Cayenne) ; Vieill N 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiy. p. 410 (1817). 

 Brown Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siippl. ii. p. 304 (1801). 

 Egretta gamia, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 354 (1837). 

 Agamia picta, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xvi, tab. 158. fio-s. 1026-27 



(1852) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 127 (1855) ; Scl. P. \ S. 1862, 



p. 369 (Mexico). 

 Herodias agami, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 89 (1854: 



Brazil; Guiana). 

 Doryphorus agami, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 259. 

 Doriponus agami, Heine S,- Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein p. 308 



(1890). 



Adalt male. General colour above glossy dark green, the scapulars 

 with a certain amount of chestnut on their outer webs; wing-coverts 

 like the back, inclining to grey at the ends, which are slightly 

 recurved ; feathers in the centre of the lower back slaty blue, with 

 broader long ornamental plumes of pearly grey ; quills"^ slaty black 

 on the inner web, slaty grey externally, the inner secondaries dark 

 green like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark 

 green, the latter powdered with slaty grey ; tail-feathers dark 

 slate-colour, lighter slaty grey externally, and slightly washed 

 with green ; crown of head, eyebrow, and ear-coverts black, extend- 

 ing in a broad band down the sides of the neck ; the forehead and 

 crown shaded with slaty blue, gradually merging into the clear 

 slaty blue of the hinder crown and crest, which is strongly developed 



