172 AEDEID.E. 



g, h. Ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



i, ^. d $ ad. sk. Pebas, E. Peru, April (J. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hmatvell). 



I. S ad. sk. Peruvian Amazons. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Rio de Janeiro. Alex. Fr}', Esq. [P.]. 



21. BUTORIDES. 



Type. 



Butorides, Bli/th, Cat. B. As. Soc. p. 281 (1849) B. javanica. 



Ocniscus, Cab. J.f. O. 1856, p. 343 B. virescens. 



Bange. The whole of the New World with the Galapagos. Africa 

 and Madagascar. Indian Peninsula and China to Japan, through 

 the Burmese countries, Malayan Peninsula, and the entire Malay 

 Archipelago to Australia, and some of the Pacific Islands. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a. Sides of face grey or brown, not rufous. 



a'. Wing-coverts margined with sandy or 

 ooliraceous buft" or whitish. 

 a". Throat and fore-neck broadly streaked 

 with rufous. 

 a^. Streaks on throat light tawny rufous. . atricajnlla, p. 172. 

 b^. Streaks on throat dark tawny rufous 



or chestnut striata, p. 175. 



b" . Throat and fore-neck uniform or mottled 

 with blackish, but never streaked with 

 tawny rufous. 

 e^. Throat and cheek-stripe white and 

 distinct ; abdomen white. 



a*. Smaller : wing 7 inches javanica, p. 177. 



b*. Larger : wing 7'9 inches amurensis, p. 181. 



(P. Throat and cheek-stripe ashy or brown, 

 not distinctly indicated ; abdomen 

 rusty, 

 c*. Sides of neck and sides of body dark 

 sooty slate-colour ; cheeks and ear- 

 coverts also slate-colour spodiogaster, p. 182. 



d^. Sides of neck washed witli rusty 

 brown like the sides of the body ; 

 abdomen rusty brown ; cheeks and 



ear-coverts also rusty brown stagnatilis, p. 183. 



h' . Wing-coverts uniform, withoutpale margins, sundevalli,-^. 185. 



b. Sides of face chestnut or maroon like the sides 



of the neck virescens, p. 186 



1. Butorides atricapilla. 



Ardea atricapilla, Afzelius, Acta Acad. StocJch. xxv. p. 264 (1804 : 

 Sierra Leone); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 223 (1857: Casamance ; 

 Bissao ; Old Calabar ; S. Thomas) ; id. Beitr. Faun. Madag. 

 p. 75 (1861) ; 8cl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 164; Schl. Mus. Pai/s-Bas, 

 Ardeaj, p. 42 (1863) ; E. Neict. Ibis, 1863, p. 456 ; Dohrn, >. Z. S. 

 1866, p. 330 (Prince's Isl.) ; Schl. t. c. p. 425, pt. (Madagascar) ; 

 Grand. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 420: Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, 

 p. 827 (Zanzibar) ;" Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 297 (1870 : Massowa) : 

 id. ^ Hartl. Yog. Ostafr. p. 701 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. 



