-206 



t. Ad. sk. 

 u. 5 ad. sk. 



V. Ad. sk. 

 w. Juv. sk. 

 a:,y. Ad. etimm.sk, 

 z, a'. S ad. ; b'. 



2 ad. sk. 

 c' . Iiiim. sk. 

 d'-f.' Ad. sk. 

 g', h'. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 i'. $ ad. sk. 



k'. $ ad. sk. 



l',m'. Ad. sk. 



«', o'. S 2 ad. sk. 

 ^'-r'. Ad. sk. 



s'-u'. Ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 v'-x'. d 5 ad.sk. 



Eiver Gambia. 



Accra, Gold Coast, July 



{J. Smith). 

 Fantee [H. T. Ussher). 

 Buffalo liiver, S. Africa. 

 Potchefstroom. 

 Potchefstroom, Sept., Oct. 



(T. Ay res). 

 Zambesi. 



Zambesi {Dr. Bradshmv) . 

 Tete, Zambesi {Sir J. Kirk). 



Zomba, Nyasaland, July (A. 



Whjte). 

 Lake Shirwa, May 20 {A. 



Whyte\. 



Upper SHre, Nov. (^. Jlliyte). 



Eg-ypt, March, May (G. E. S.). 

 Suakin. 



Mesopotamia ( Commander 



Jones). 

 Fao, Persian Gulf. 



j/'. Ad. sk. 



Busbire, April. 



Sir A. Moloney [P.\ 

 Shelley CoD. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Major Trevelyan 

 F. Barratt, Esq. [P, 

 Guruey Coll. 



Dr. Bradshaw [CI. 



Shelley CoU. 



Livingstone Expedi- 

 tion. 



H. H. Johnston, Esq., 

 C.B. [P.]. 



H. H. Johnston, Esq., 

 C.B. [P.]. 



H. H. Johnston, Esq., 

 C.B. [P.]. 



Shelley Coll. 



Surgeon-Capt. Pen- 

 ton [P.]. 



India Museum. 



W.D. Gumming, Esq. 



rp.]. 



A. J. V. Palmer, Esq. 



[P.]. 



2. Ardeola idae. 



Ardea, sp. n., Felz. Nautn. 18o8, p. 497. 



Ardea malaccensis ? {nee Gm.), Kollar, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, 1858, 

 p. 342. 



Ardea idffi, ir«riZ. J.f. 0.1860, p. 167; id. Beitr. Faun. Madag. 

 p. 75 (1861) ; A. Neict. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 837 ; Grand. Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 420 ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 699 

 (1870) ; Gray, Hatid-l. B. iii. p. 30, no. 10139 (.1871) ; Hartl. Vog. 

 JJf«f%. p. 303(1877, pt.). 



Ardea el'egans, Boch ^- E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 170. 



Ardea comata (nee Pall), E. Neicton, Ibis, 1863, p. 456. 



Buphus idse, Verr. in Vinson's Vog. Madag., Ann. B, p. 3 (1865). 



Ardea leucoptera {nee Bodd.), Schl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 425. 



Ardea leucoptera idse, ScM. S,- Poll. Faun. Madag. ii. p. 125 (1868). 



Ardea leucoptera, var. idse, Milne-Edtv. Sf Grand. Hist. Nat. Madag., 

 Ois. p. 556, (1885, pt.). 



Ardeola idse, Sharpe, Nat. Libr., British Birds, iii. p. 86. 



Adult male in ivinter plumage. Similar to the winter plumage of 

 A. ralloides and A. grayi, especially to that of the latter, but even 

 darker brown, with mesial narrow streaks of ochraceous buff on the 

 back, much broader and brighter ochre on the scapulars ; the inner- 

 most secondaries like the back, and streaked in the same manner ; 

 head black, the feathers streaked down the centre with rufous 

 ochre, those forming the crest having broader centres ; sides of face 

 rufous ochre, with a few black streaks on the fore-part of the 

 cheeks ; throat rufous ochre, streaked with black, which almost 



