192 ARDEID^. 



the under tail-coverts ; sides of body and flanks baiTsd with black 

 and sandy buff like the upper surface ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 buff mottled with black, the lower series pure white ; axillaries 

 barred with black and buff like the sides of the body : " bill greenish 

 brown, paler towards the base ; lower mandible and bare space 

 round the e3'e yellowish ; feet yellowish brown ; iris sulphur- 

 yellow " (./. Buttihofer). Total length 28 inches, culmen 44, 

 wing 10'7, tail 4-6, tarsus 3'4. 



Mr. Biittikofer says that a young bird procured by him in Liberia 

 was coloiu'cd exactly like the old birds, and had also the white 

 patch on the nape. 



Hah. West Africa from Liberia to the Congo. 



a. Ad. sk. Denkera, Gold Coast {H. T. Shelley Coll. 



Ussher). 

 h. Ad. sk. River Ogow6, Gaboon. II. T. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



23. ZONEEODIUS. 



T\-pe. 

 Zonerodius, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xviii. 



p. 336 (1882) Z. heliosylus. 



Range. Confined to Papuasia. 



1. Zonerodius heliosylus. 



Heron phaeton, Les.<i. Voy. Coquille, Zooi. Atlas, pi. 44 (182(5). 

 Ardea heliosylus:, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Atlas, i. p. 722 (1826-28) ; 



8chl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardeae, p. 51 (1863) ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 183 (18G5) ; Rosenb. Relit, naar Geelvinkb. pp. 84, 118 



(1875) ; id. Malay. Arch. p. 563 (1878-79). 

 Tigrisoma heliosylus, Less. Traite, p. 572 (1832) ; id. Compl. Bv^. 



p. 693 (1838) ; Shaiye, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 321 (1877 : Aleya) ; 



Salvad. Ann. M71S. Genov. xiv. p. 133 (1879) : Ramsay, Pruc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. If. iii. p. 300 (1878), iv. p. 102 (1880: Port 



Moresby) ; D' Albert. Nuoca Guinea, p. 588 (1880) ; Sharpe, Journ. 



Linn. Soc, Zool. x\i. p. 447 (1882 : Sogeri district). 

 Botaurus heliosvlus. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 557 (1847) ; Reichenb. 



Grail, tab. 150. tig. 508 (1848) ; Bp. C. R. xl. p. 223 (1855) ; id. 



Consp. ii. p. 136 (1855) : Sclater, Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. p. 169 (1858) : 



Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p.'l97, 1859, p. 159 ; id. Cut. B. New Guinea, 



pp. 51, 62 ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 438 ; Rosenb. X. T. D. xxv. p. 253 



(1863); id. J.f. O. 1864, p. 130; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 32, 



no. 10166 (1871). 

 Botaurus phaetlion. Less., Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 247. 

 Zonerodius heliosylus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 336 (1882) ; 



id. Orn. Papuasia, iii. pp. 368, 565 (1882 : Dorey : Sorong ; Andai ; 



Lobo ; Fly Kiver ; Aleva ; Pt. Moresby) ; id. Ann. Mus. Genov. 



(2) ix. p. 591 (1800: liigo) ; Heine ^- Rcichen. Nomencl. Mus. 



Hein. p. 309 (1890) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, iii. p. 207 



(1891). 



Adult male. General colour above black, barred with sandy buff, 

 a little paler on the wing-coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills black, spotted on the outer web and barred on the inner 



