2 7S ARDEIDJE. 



(1884) ; Vorderm. N. T. Nederl. hid. xliv. p. 202 (1885 : Java) 

 Swinh. Sf Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 136 (Mhow) ; Guillem. P. Z. S, 

 1885, p. 274 (Sulu IsL), p. 561 (Kema ; Meuado) ; Blasius, Zeitschr. 

 ffes. Or)i. iii. p. 167 (1886 : Celebes) ; Saimders, P. Z. <S'. 1886 

 p. 336 (Diego Garcia) ; Peid, Str. F. x. p. 453 (1887 : Lucknow 

 breeding); Kinne, Str. F. xi. p. 334(1888: Manipui-) ; Sharpe 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 204 (Palawan); Everett, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 225 

 Vorderm. N. T. Nederl. Ind. xlix. p. 417 (1889 : Sumatra) 

 Whiteliead, Ibis, 1890, p. 60; Shai-pe, t. c. p. 147 (Kina Balu) 

 p. 285 (Lawas K.) ; Oates, ed. Hume's Nests 4" Fffffs Ind. B. iii 

 p. 249 (1890); Torderm. op. cit. li. p. 422 (1891: Bawean Isl.) 

 Styari, Ibis, 1891, pp. 327, 493 (Lower Yangise) ; De la louche 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 489 (River Min, Foochow) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1894 

 pp. 245, 258 (Bongao) ; id. Bull. B. O. Club, iii. p. xvii (1894) 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) xiv. p. 601 (1894 : Mentawei). 



Ardetta thalassina (nee Sic), Kelaart, Prodr. Faun.Ceyl. p. 133 (1852). 



Herodias javanica, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 89 (1854). 



Butorides chloiiceps, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 129 (1855). 



Herodias a.sha {jiec Sykes), Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 64 (err.). 



Ai'dea atricapilla (nee Afzel.), E. Newton, Ibis, 1867, pp. 351, 389 

 (Seychelles); Marti. Voy. Maday. ^. 308 (1877, pt.); Milne-Edio. 

 ^ Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) x. p. 281 (1888: Comoros). 



Ardea striata, subsp. javanica, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 254. 



Butorides atricapilla (nee Afzel.), Sharpe, Phil. Trans, extra vol. 168. 

 p. 462 (1879 : Rodriguez). 



Ardetta atricapilla (nee Afzel.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 679 (Grand 

 Comoro and Anjuan Isl.). 



Ocniscus javanicus, Heine ^- Peicheti. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 308 

 (1890). 



Adult male. General colour above light slat}' grey, the feathers 

 of the back with hoary-white shaft-lines ; the long scapular-feathers 

 green, or green with grey tips ; wing-coverts and quills dark green 

 with ochreous-buff margins, inclining to white on the edges of the 

 greater coverts and secondaries, most of the quills being fringed 

 with white at the ends ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 dull green, more or less powdered with grey ; tail also dull green ; 

 crown of head dark glossy green, with the nape-feathers produced 

 into a point ; the bind-neck and sides of neck grey, extending over 

 the sides of the face and ear-coverts ; below the eye a streak of 

 greenish black extending along the ear-coverts, along the upper 

 part of which runs a whitish streak from behind the eye to the 

 level of the nape ; another streak of white from the base of the lower 

 mandible along the cheeks ; throat, fore-neck, and abdomen white ; ' 

 sides of body and flanks, including the overhanging feathers on the ) 

 sides of the upper breast, slaty grey like the sides of the neck, i 

 leaving the centre of the throat and fore-neck white, slightly varied j 

 with dingy brown markings, these markings being on the edges of ( 

 the throat-feathers ; the axillaries and under wing-coverts grey, 

 like the quill-lining : " upper mandible black, with a longitudinal 

 yellow streak along the margin below the nostrils ; gape greenish 

 brown ; lower mandible greenish yellow, more or less black along the 

 edges ; facial skin green ; legs and toes green, front of the tarsus 

 and toes dusky, soles orange, and claws horn-colour ; iris yellow " 



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