208 AEDEID^. 



Ardea leucoptera grayi, Schl. Mtis. Pays-Bas., Ardese, p. 35 (1863 : 

 Nepal ; Poiidicliery ; Ceylon). 



Ardeola grayi, Holdsw. P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 478 (Ceylon) ; Hume, Sir. 

 F. i. p. 256 (1873 : Sind) ; Adam, t. c. p. 399 (Sambhur) ; Ilume, 

 Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. p. 619 j:i873) ; id. Str. F. ii. p. 309 (1874 : 

 Andamana) ; Wald. Ibis, 1874, p. 148 (Andamans) ; Legge, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 276 (Ceylon) ; Hume, iStr. F. iii. p. 190 (1875: Thayet- 

 myo) ; Blyth Sc' Wald. B. Burm. p. 160 (1875 : Arakan: Karen- 

 nee) ; Armstrong, Str. F. iv. p. 350 (1876: Eangoon) ; Hume, 

 t. c. p. 467 (Laccadives) ; Hume Sf Davisrm, Str. F. vi. p. 481 

 (1878 : Tenasserim) ; Hume, op. cit. vii. p. 39 (1878 : Travancore) ; 

 Davidson ^- Wenden, t. c. p. 91 (Deccan) ; Ball, t. c. p. 230 

 (Ganges to Godavery) ; Hume, op. cit. viii. p. 114 (1879) ; Scully, 

 t. c. p. 361 (Nepal Valley) ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 70 (1879 : 

 resident) ; id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 83 (1880 : resident) ; 

 Tiraut, Bull. Ac/ric. Cuchinchine, (3) i. p. 151 (1879) ; Legge, B. 

 Ceylon, iii. p. il50 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 90 (1880 : S. 

 Konkan) ; Bingham, t. c. p. 197 (Gyne & Attaran Kivers); Barnes^ 

 t. c. p. 460 (Cbaman, S. Afghanistan) ; Reid, op. cit. x. p. 76 

 (1881 : Lucknow) ; Davidson, t. c. p. 324 (1882 : W. Khandeish) ; 

 Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 252 (1883) ; Damson, Str. F. 

 X. p. 466 (1883 : Nilghiris) ; Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 272 

 (1884); Sivinh. ^- Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 136 (Mhow distr.) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2), iv. p. 615 (1886 : Bhamo, June & 

 July) ; Taylor, Str. F. x. p. 466 (1887 : Mysore) ; Hume, Str. F. 

 xi. p. 334* (1888: Mauipur) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vii. 

 p. 427 (1889: Karin Hills); Oates, ed. Hume's Nests ^- Eggs Ind. 

 B. iii. p. 248 (1890) ; Munn, Ibis, 1894, p. 69 (Calcutta). 



Ardea comata, Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 499 (pt., Busliire). 



Adult male in hreediiig^ilumage. General colour above, back and 

 scapulars, -with the ornamental decomposed plumes, dark maroon, 

 sometimes inclining to blackish chestnut, and sometimes exhibiting 

 a wash of slaty grey ; lower back, rump, wings, and tail white, the 

 wings more or less washed with golden buff, the elongated orna- 

 mental inner secondaries being entirely of this colour ; head and 

 neck greyish ochre, more decidedly grey on the crown, with four 

 elongated white nuchal plumes, the feathers of the crest and sides 

 of neck also much lengthened, the latter decomposed and somewhat 

 spiny in appearance ; sides of face clear ochreous ; throat pure 

 white ; lower throat and fore-neck ashy ochreous, the feathers of 

 the latter being decomposed and ornamental, partaking of the same 

 spiny appearance as those on the sides of the neck, and being some- 

 what mottled with greyish bases to the feathers ; rest of under 

 surface of body, as well as the under ■n'ing-coverts and quill-lining, 

 pure white : "bill with the terminal portion black, bluish at the 

 base and on the culmen, sides of both mandibles yellowish ; legs 

 and feet greenish, the tarsus pervaded with grey, and the joints 

 bluish ; iris golden yellow " ( W. V. Lerjrje). Total length 18 

 inches, culmen 2'7, wing 8-75, tail 3*15, tarsus 2-3, middle toe and 

 claw 2*4. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male in colour, but the ornamental 

 phimes not so much developed : " bill with the tip of upper and tip 

 of lower mandible blackish, rest of lower yellowish ; legs and feet 



