21. UUTOKIDES. 



185 



a. Ad. sk. 



b-n. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p. Ad. sk. 



q. 2 imm. sk. 



r. J fid. sk. 



s. Ad. sk. 

 f. c? ad. sk. 

 u, V. Ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 w. Ad. sk. 

 .V. Ad. sk. 

 y. (J ad. sk. 

 z. (5' juv. sk. 

 a', b'. Ad. sk. 

 c'. Ad. sk. 



<i'. Ad. sk. 



New South Wales. Australian Museum. 



Queensland (/. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Cape Upstart. 



Thursday Island, Ton-es 



Straits, June {Br. Coj)- 



pinger). 

 1st Cousin Island, Aug. 14 



(G. M. Rai/ner). 

 Yule Island, S.E. New 



Guinea. 

 New Guinea. 

 Bourou [A, R. Wallace). 

 Amboina. 



East Gilolo. 



Morotai. 



East Timor. 



Semao, Timor. 



Flores. 



Fiji Islands, Nov. {F. M. 



Rayner). 

 Savu, Fiji Islands (E. L. 



Layard). 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Voy. H.M.S. ' Alert.' 



Voy. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



Dr. James [C.]. 



Wallace Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger.' 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 Wallace Coll. 

 W^allace Coll. 

 Wallace CoU. 

 Voy. H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



Tweeddale Coll. 



5. Butorides sundevalli. 



Butorides javanicus [nee Horsf.), Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 323 



(Indefatigable Isl.). 

 Ardea plumbea (nee Men:), Siindev. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 125, 127 



(James Island). 

 Butorides plumbeus (nee Men-.), Salv. Tr. Z. S. ix. pp. 464, 497 



(1875 : Indefatigable Isl.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 428 (Charles Isl ) ; 



Ridgw. Pron. U.S. Nat. Mm. xii. p. 128 (1889 : Chatham Isl.) ; 



Sknrpe, Bidl. B. O. C. iii. p. xviii (1894). 

 Ardea plumbea, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 253. 



Adult, Differs from all the other species of the genus in wanting 

 the reddish edgings to the wing-coverts ; head and sides of face 

 black like the neck ; wings, lower back, rump, and tail black glossed 

 with green, the primaries dusted with slaty grey ; mantle and sca- 

 pulars dark slaty grey, the scapular plumes and inner secondaries 

 pointed and ornamental ; under surface of body dark slate-colour, 

 the throat, fore-ueck, and under wing- and tail-coverts black ; the 

 throat with a few white streaks. Total length IS inches, culmen 

 2'6, wing 7"3, tail 2*4, tarsus 2. 



Toung. Similarly coloured to the young of the other species of 

 the genus, but much darker than any, the general colour being 

 blackish or blackish brown. 



Hah. Galapagos Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b,c. cJ $ juv. sk. 



Charles Island, Galapagos, 

 Feb. [A.U. Markham). 



Indefatigable Isl., Aug. [Dr. 

 A. Unbel). 



Salvin-Godmau Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



