184 AKDEID^. 



Salvad. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 83 (Amboina) ; Mamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 



U.S. W. iv. p. 84 (1880 : SaTo) ; Mei/er, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1881, 



p. 767 (Sumba) ; Salvad. Rep. Voy. ' Challenger,^ ii. Birds, p. 64 



(1881) ; id. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 359 (1882 : Halmahera, Dorey, 



Aru Is., Jobi, Ceram-laut) ; Blasius, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 710 (Ceram) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1882, pp. 531, 644 (New Caledouia) ; Tristr. Ibis, 



1882, p. 144 (Savo) : Me^/er, Zeitsckr. ges. Orn. i. p. 295 (1884) ; 



Pleske, Bull. Acad. St. 'Pefersb. xxix. p. 538 (1884 : Ternate) ; 



Sharpe, Pep. Zool. Coll. 'Alert: p. 28 (1884: Thur.^dav Island) ; 



Nehrk. J. f. O. 1885, p. 35 (Waigiou) ; Ogihie- Grant, P. Z. S. 



1887, p. 333 (Fauro), 1888, p. 202 (Aola) ; Ramsay, Tab. List 



Austr. B. p. 21 (1888) ; Isorth, Nests Sr Eggs Avs/r. B. p. 322 



(1889) ; Salrad. Ann. Miis. Genov. (2) x. p. 287 (1891) ; id. Agg. 



Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 206 (1891) ; Wiglesiv. Abhandl. k. Zool. 



Mus. Dresden, no. 6, p. 68 (1891: Society Is. ; Fiji Is.); Tristr. 



Ibis, 1892, p. 297 (Solomon Is.). 

 Ardea javanica (nee Horsf.), Finsch, Neti-Guinea, p. 183 (1865, pt.) ; 



id. ^ HaHl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 207 (1867) : Layard, P. Z. S. 



1875, p. 440 (Kandavu) ; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 393 (Viti Levu) ; E. L. 



Sf E. L. C. Layard, Ibis. 1878, p. 264 (New CaledcDia) ; Nehrk. J.f. 



O. 1879, p. 408 (Waicriou); Reichen. J.f. 0. 1891, p. 127 (Viti 



Levu). 

 Ocniscus patruelis, Cab. 8,- Reichen. J.f. O. 1876, p. 326. 

 Ardea striata, subsp. macrorhynclia, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 264 



Ardea striata, subsp. stagnatilis, Reichen. t. c. p. 264. 

 Ardetta javanica (nee Hoi-sf.), Bi'Albert. Sf Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Genov. xiv. p. 132 (1879). 



Adult. Similar to B. javanica, but larger and darker ; the white 

 cheek-stripe and white throat obsolete, these parts being ashy or 

 brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts rusty-brown ; under surface of bod}'^ 

 dingy rusty-brown with a tinge of slate-colour ; abdomen and thighs 

 rusty-brown as also the under tail-coverts : "upper mandible and 

 cutting-edge of lower mandible very dark reddish brown ; remainder 

 of lower mandible oil-green ; tibia and hinder part of tarsi bright 

 yellow ; remainder of legs and feet yellowish brown ; iris light 

 yellow ; orbits and eyelash gamboge-yellow " (J. Gould). Total 

 length 17 inches, culmen 2-8, wing 7*7, tail 2-6, tarsus 1-9, middle 

 toe and claw 2-25. 



Young. Darker than the yonng of B. javanica, and, as in that 

 species, distinguished by the white or sandy-coloured spots on the 

 wing-coverts ; throat white, mottled with sandy spots or streaks. 



I have not been able to discover "any evidence of the existence 

 of two species of Green Heron in Australia, so far as my experience 

 of the series in the British Museum enables me to judge ; and 

 I believe that Gould's B. macrorhpicJia is the same species as 

 his B. siar/natilis, being founded upon young or winter-plumaged 

 specimens. Although in his pictures he has coloured the soft parts 

 differently, I consider these colours to be due to seasonal changes 

 only. 



Jlab. Northern and Eastern Australia, New Guinea, and the 

 Molucca Islands, Timor and Flores, Solomon Islands, New 

 Caledonia, Fiji Islands, Society Islands, Friendly Islands. 



