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■disappears on the chin, this being white ; the long feathers on each 

 side of the chest rufous ochre, broadly edged with black ; remainder 

 of under surface, as well as the wings and tail, pure white. Total 

 length 18 inches, culmen 2-5, wing U'7, tail 3-65, tarsus 2-5. 

 (J/ms. a. 4' E. Newton.) 



Young hird. Resembles the winter plumage of the adults, but has 

 the wing-covorts and the outer webs of the quills brownish, the 

 latter with blackish shafts ; the head is blackish, very narrowly 

 streaked with whitish buff: "bill horn-colour ; naked skin between 

 the eye and the beak yellowish ; skin round eye, base of lower 

 mandible, and legs greenish yellow ; iris yellow '*' {E. Newton). 

 (Mus. A. ^ E. Newton.) 



Professor Newton has very kindly lent me some Herons from 

 Madagascar, which have enabled me to determine that two species 

 have hitherto been confounded under the heading of Ardea idee. 

 A white bird in breeding-plumage, in Professor Newton's collection, 

 agrees very well with the plate of the adult A. idee in the ' Histoire 

 Naturelle de Madagascar,' and I cannot see why the bird is not 

 Oarzetta garzetta. An examination of the specimen in the Paris 

 Museum alone can determine this question. The true A. idm seems 

 to be exceedingly close to the ordinary Ardeola ralloides and 

 A. grayi, but, for the reasons given above, I have kept it separate 

 for the present. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



3. Ardeola grayi. 



PCrabier de Malac, D'Aubent. PL Enl. viii. pi. 911. 



r Le Crabier blanc et brun, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 394 (17S0). 



? Cancroma leucoptera, Bodd. Tabl. Pi. Enl. p. 54 (1783). 



? Malacca Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 78 (1785). 



? Ardea malaccensis, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 643 (1788). 



Ardea malaciensis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 425 (1817). 



Ardea grayii, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 158 (Deccan) ; Gray Sr ITardto. 

 Illustr. ImJ. Zool. ii. pi. 48 (1833-34) ; Gray, Sandnl. B. iii. p. .30, 

 no. 10136 (1871) ; Reiche^i. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 257. 



Egretta maeronata, Hodqs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Grail, pi. 64, 

 nos. G42-644 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (1844). 



Ardeola leucoptera, Gi-ayl List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 82 (1844: 

 Nepal) ; iel. Cat. Mamm. S,-c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 134 (1846) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 281 (1849 : Calcutta) ; Layard, 

 Ann. 4- Maq. Nat. Hist. (2) xiv. p. 112 (1854); Irhi, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 245 (Oudh) ; Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 751 (1864) ; Beamn, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 333 (Andamans) ; Godio.-Aust. J. A. S. Beny. xxxix. 

 p. 274(1870: Khasia Hills); Blanf. op. cit. xl. p. 276 (1871: 

 Wardha Valley) ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 419 (Kathiawar) ; 

 Leyye, Ibis, 1874, p. 30 ; Heine ^ Iteichen, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 

 p. 308 (1890). 



Ardea leucoptera, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 556 (1847) : id. Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 30, no. 10135 (1871) : Iteichen. J.f.O. 1877, p. 257. 



Ardeola malaccensis, Eeichenb. Grail, tab. Ixxxvii. tig. 500, tab. xc. 

 fig. 1025 (1850). 



Buphus malaccensis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 89 (1854) ; 

 Bp. Camp. Av. ii. p. 126 (1855). 



