162 ardeidjE. 



7. Nycticorax manillensis. 



Nycticorax manillensis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98 (Manila) ; Gray, 

 List Grail, Brit. Mus. p. 86 (1844 : Mindanao) ; id. Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 558 (1847) ; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pi. 66 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. 

 Av. ii. p. 140 (1855) ; Schl. Mus'. Pai/s-Bas, Ardeas, p. 60 (1863: 

 Luzon) ; 3Iartens, J. /. O. 1866, p. "28 (Samar) ; Wald. Trans. 

 Z. S. ix. p. 238 (1875 : Manila) ; Tiveedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 769 

 (Cebu) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 288 (Dumaguete), p. 345 (Amparo) ; 

 id. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 73 (Basilan) ; Steer e, List Mamm. Sf Birds 

 Phillpp. Exped. p. 27 (1890: Mindanao; Siquijor; Marinduque) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1894, p. 541 (Lower Padas River) ; Bourns ^- Wor- 

 cester, Occ. Papers Minnesota Acad. i. no. 1. p. 32 (1894 : Samar ; 

 Tawi Tawi, Tabias, Sibuyan, Panay, Masbate, Siquijor). 



Ardea caledonica {nee Gm.), Meyen, Nov. Acta Acad. Cces. Leop.- 

 Nat. Cur. 1834, p. 103. 



Calherodius manillensis, Bp. Compt. Bend. xl. p. 723 (1855). 



Nyctiardea manillensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 33, no. 10173 (1871). 



Adult male. Similar to N. caledonicus, but darker and very 

 much richer in colour, being of a deep maroon above ; crown of 

 head and crest-feathers, including the long nuchal plumes, greenish 

 black, extending down the hind-neck on to the mantle ; no white 

 eyebrow ; under surface of body white, but the throat pervaded 

 with chestnut ; the whole of the sides of the face and sides of neck 

 chestnut, extending on to the sides of the breast ; the under wing- 

 coverts, axillaries, and thighs for the most part chestnut, but with 

 a good deal of Avhite in the centre of the feathers : " bill black ; 

 feet pale ochreous white, brown in front and the up2:»er part of the 

 toes ; orbital skin yellowish green ; iris golden yellow " {A. H. 

 Everett). Total length 25 inches, culmen 2-75, wing 12-5, tail 4-6, 

 tarsus 3"1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 22 

 inches, culmen 3, wing 12-3, tail 4"85, tarsus 3-2. 



Young. Similar to the young of N. caledonicus, but much more 

 rufous, the \vings conspicuously chestnut, the spots and streaks on 

 the upper surface deep rufous or light chestnut, and the breast very 

 broadly streaked with black : " bill brown, lower mandible dirty 

 yellowish ; legs light greenish yellow, claws grey ; iris golden 

 yellow " (A. H. Everett). 



Hah. Philippine Islands, N. Borneo. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. Philippine Islands (C. Cross). J. H. Gurney, Esq. 

 sk. [P.]. 



c. Ad. st. Island of Luzon. Cuming Coll. 



d. 2 imm. sk. Marinduque, May 22 {E. L. Steere Expedition. 



Mvseley). 



e. 2 juv. sk. Concepcion, Panay, Jan. 9 Steere Expedition. 



{E. L. Moseley). 



f. g, h. S fid. et Cebu, May {A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 

 juv. sk. 



i. Juv. sk. Mindanao. Cuming Coll. 



k. Juv. sk. Mindanao (J). C. Worcester). Steere Expedition. 



/. c? juv. sk, Dumaguete, Aug. [A, H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Everett). 



