146 



ARDEIDiE. 



h' . Neck bright chestnut; crown black, throat 



■white ; with a large white patch on the 



back leuconutiis, p. lo7. 



. Tail chestnut like the general tone of the 



upper surface. 



c' . Back vinous rufous ; the wiufis uniform 



with the back or a little darker ; lower 



surface of wings more or less vinous. 



c" . Ornamental breeding-plumes on nape 



white. 



c^. Eyebrow white ; thighs white, only , , 7 • 1 cq 



.r • ., . • 1 -ii f - caleaonicus, X). loo. 

 lamtly tinged with rufous -, . . ■ ^ ^a^ 



a^. rso white eyebrow, only a faint ' '^ 



supraloral streak ; lower throat and 



chest chestnut ; chin and upper 



throat white ; thighs strongly tinged 



with chestnut viandibidaris, p. 101. 



d''. Ornamental breeding-plumes on na})e 



black : sides of face deep cliestnut, as 



also the sides of the neck ; throat and 



centre of fore-neck lighter ; no trace 



of an eyebrow manillenta'g, p. 102. 



d'. Back blackish slate-colour like the head ; 



lower surface of wings more or less grey, minahasace, p. lO."! 



1 . Nycticorax nycticorax. 



The Night Heron. 



The Night liaven, Alhin, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 02, pi. 67 (17.'18). 



Le IIi?ron gris, Brws- Orn. v. p. 412, pi xx.xvi. fig. 1 (1760). 



Le Heron hupe du Mexique, Bri.'<s. Orn. v. p. 418 (1760). 



Le Bihoreau, Briss. Orn. v. p. 493. pi. xxxix. (1760) ; D'Aubent. I'/. 



JE71I. viii. pla. 758, 759; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 435, pi. xxii. 



(1780). 

 Ardea nycticorax, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 235 (1766) ; Gtn. Si/st. Nat. 



i. p. 624 (1788) ; Wilson, Anier. Orn. yii. p. 101, pi. ixi.'tigs. 2, 3 



(1813) ; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 189 (1820: Java) ; 7mw(. 



Man. d'Orn. 'ii. p. 577 (1820); Bon.r, Orn. Prov. pi. 318 (1825: 



juv.) ; Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiut. ii. p. 126 (1826); Audub. B. 



Amer. pi. ccxsxvi. (c. 1820) : Weriier, Atlas, Coi/rettrs, pi. 27 (1827) ; 



Men6tr. Cat. Rais. Caiic. p. 50 (1832: Lenkoran); Avdub. Orn. 



Biogr. iii. p. 275 (1835), y. p. 600 (1839) ; Naum. Yiiq. Dentschl. 



ix. p. 139, pi. 226 (1838) ; Keys. u. Bias. IVirb. Bur. pp. Ixxx, 220 



(1840); Nord7n. in Demid. toy. Buss. Mcrid. iii. p. 262 (1840); 



Audvb. B. Amer. 8yo, vi. p. 82, pi. ccclxiii. (1843) ; Schl. Rev. 



Crit. p. xcviii (1814) ; Miihle,Beitr. Orn. Griechenl. p. 116 (1844) ; 



Hewits. F.qgs Brit. B. ii. p. 272, pi. Ixxiv. tig. 3 (1846) ; Kjarb. 



Orn. Z>«??!'pl. xxxii. fig. 4 (1852); Schl. J'og. Nederl. pis. 193, 



194 (1854) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 153 (1860); Schl. Bier. 



Nederl... Togels. pi. 19. figs. 8, 9 (1861) ; id. Mtis. Pays-Bas, Ardea-, 



p. 56 (1863: Europe and America); Wright, Ibis, 1864, p. 144 



(Mnlra, spiing and autumn); Schl. ^- Poll. Panne Madaq., Ois. 



p. 126 (1868) ; Borgqr. Vnqelf. Norddentschl. p. 123 (18C9) ; Sunder. 



(Plfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fiirh. 1869, p. 002 (Porto Bico) ; id. Sve?isk. 



Fogl. pi. hxv. figs. 4, 5 (1856-72) ; Finsch i^- Hartl. Vfig. Ostafr. 



p. 709 (1870); F.lives S,- BvcMey, Ibis, 1870, p. 334 (Bulgaria); 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. i. p. 1086 (1873) ; Finsch, Verh. z.-b. 



Ges. Wien, xxix. p. "248 (1879); Tordenn. N. T. Nederl. Ind. xlii. 



p. 233 (1882: Java). 



