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more coarsely spotted with oohrcoiis above ; beneath reddish ochre, 

 broadlj- streaked with black. 



Hub. rroin Chili south to the Straits of Magellan. 



a. tS ad. sk. Frutillar, npar Lake Llan- Berkeley James Coll. 



queliui, Chili, Dec. 6. 



h. ijjuv.sk. Kio Conta, Chili, Jan. 13. Berkelev James Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. Straits of Magellan. The Admiralty [P.]. 



d. S jiiv. ; e. 2 Cockle Cove, Straits of Voy. II. M.S. 'Alert.' 

 ad. sk. Magellan, Feb. 12 [Dr. 



Coppinger). 



f. Juv.sk. Neesham Cove, Trinidad Vov. 11. M.S. ' Alert.' 



Channel, Feb. 26 {Dr. 



Coppinijer). 



.'/. 5juv.sk. Tom Harbour, ISIessier Voy. II. M.S. ' Chal- 



Channel. lenger.' 



/(. 1 juv. sk. Puerto Bueno, Jan. Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 



4. Nycticorax leuconotus. 



Ardea leuconotus, Waql. Si/st. Av., Ardea, ]). 189, sp. .33 (1827) ; 



Finsch ^ Haiti. Vdq. Ostafr. p. 713 (1870); Heuul. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. ii. Abth. i. p. 1088 (1873 : Blue and White Niles : Fazogloa). 

 Ardea cuctdlata, Wat/l. Ms, 1829, p. 661; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bos, 



Ardeaj, p. 60 (1863 : Gold Coast). 

 Xyctiardea leuconota, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 355 (1837) ; Gray, 



Iland-l. B. iii. p. 33, no. 10178 (1871). 

 Nycticorax leuconotus, Gray, Gen. B, iii. p. 558 (1847) ; Ayres, Ibis, 



1885, p. 349 (Ile.^ river, breedinir) ; Cab. in Von der Deckens Beis. 



iii. p. 50, Taf. xviii. (1870) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 12 (Loango), 



p. 239 ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 450 (1881 : Humbe) ; Sharpe, ed. 



Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 724 (1884 : Kleinmont). 

 Nycticorax cucullatus. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p, 558 (1847) ; Licht. 



Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 90 (1854: Senegal): Harf.l. Orn. 



Wpst-Afr. p. 225 (1857: Senegal: Rio Boutrv) ;' Scl. P. Z. S. 



1867, p. ti87 (West Africa). 

 Ardea ociilaria, Midler, Naum. 1851, Heft iv. p. 29 (Senaar). 

 Calherodius cucullatus, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 139 (1855) ; id. Compt. 



Bmd. xl. p. 723 (1855) ; Layard, Ibis, 1870, p. 443 (Kleinmont 



river-month). 

 Buphus leuconotus, Heuyl. Syst. Uvhers. p. 59 (1856: Blue Nile). 



Adult. General colour above black, the long scapular plumes 

 white or pure white along the inner webs, continuous with a largo 

 white patch on the upper back ; lower back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, wings, and tail dusky slate-colour, with a slight greenish 

 shade, the lesser wing-coverts washed with rufous brown ; crown 

 of head crested, greenish, with elongated nape-plumes ; lores white, 

 extending above the eye, as also a small patch just below the latter ; 

 cheeks, car-coverts, and sides of face black ; upper throat white, 

 lower throat and neck all round bright orange-chestnut, with a line 

 of black feathers extending down the hind-neck and joining the black 

 of the upper mantle ; centre of lower throat and fore-neck, as well as 

 the centre of the breast, composed of dusky-brown feathers, white 



