158 ARDEID^. 



on the outer web, producing a streaked appearance, which becomes 

 less distinct on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are 

 whiter; sides of body, flanks, and thighs, as well as the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries, vinaceous chestnut : " bill blackish, the 

 base of the mandible yellow ; lores and orbits bare, greenish 

 yellow ; feet orange ; iris fiery yellow " ( Von HeugUa). Total length 

 about 20 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 10-2, tail 4"1, tarsus 2'8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but much lighter and paler : 

 " bill dark horn, lower mandible lightest ; tarsi and feet yellow " 

 (]F. Lucas). Total length about 19 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 10*5, 

 tail 4-3, tarsus 2-9. 



The adult male described is from the Gold Coast, and none of 

 the other specimens have the line of black feathers down the hinder 

 neck ; the specimen in question seems to be in every way adult. 



Hab. Confined to Africa. 



a. Ad. St. Africa. Old Coll. 



b. Ad. St. West Africa. Purchased. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Gold Coast. Shelley Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Hex River, Rustenberg Distr., Gurney Coll. 



Transvaal ( IJ'. Lucas). 



5. Nycticorax caledonicus. 



Caledonian Night-IIeron, Coolers Voij. ii. pi. 50, p. Ill (1777) ; Lath. 



Gen. Si/n. iii. pt, 1, p. So (1785). 

 Ardea caledouica, Gm. f>i/.st. Nat. i. p. 626 (1788) ; Latlt. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 679 (1790 : New Caledonia) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 



xiv. p. 436 (1817) ; Zm\ Traite, p. 571 (1831) ; Svhl. Mua. Pays- 



Bas, Ardeae, p. 59 (1863 : Hunter R., Australia ; Timor ; Morotai ; 



Halmahera; Makassar; Tondano) ; id. Nederl. Lijds'ch. Dierk.m. 



p. 348 (1866: Aru) ; Rosenb. Malay. Arch. pp. 373, 407, 563 



(1878-79: Teruate). 

 Ardea nmculata, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. Ixiv (1801) ; Strickl. 



Ann. N. H. xi. p. 338 (1843). 

 Ardea novae hoUandise, Vieill. N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 436 (1817) ; 



Piicher. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 565; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1855, 



p. 421. 

 Ardea australis, Vieill. Enc. MetJi. iii. p. 1130 (1823) ; Pucker. Rev. 



et Mar), de Zool. 1851, p. 5(i6, note. 

 Nycticorax caledonicus, Steph. hi Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 013 (1819) ; 



Grai/, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 85 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 558 



(1847) ; Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 63 (1848) ; Reichenb. Voy. Neuholl. 



pt. ii. p. 33, sp. 322 (1850) ; id. Grail, tab. 155. figs. 2389-90 



(1851); Mucgill. Voy. Raftlesn. ii. p. 358 (1852 : N.E.Australia; 



Torres Straits) ; Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 139 (1855) : Gray, P. Z. S. 



1858, p. 197 ; id. Vat. Ma^mn. ^ B. New Gain. p. 62 (1859); id. 



Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Ocean, p. 49 (1859); id. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 166 ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 364 (Halmahera) ; Verr. et Des Murs, 



Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860, p. 439 (New Caledonia) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 35 (Bouru) ; Rusenb. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. 1863, p. 253 



(Amboina; Timor); id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 136 (New Guinea); 



Finsch, Neu-Gninea, p. 183 (1865: Batchian) ; Gould, Handb. B. 



Austr. ii. p. 311 (1865); Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 335 (Port 



Denison) ; Rosenb. Reis naar Ztiidoostereil. p. 53 (1867: Aru); 



