27. ARDEOIA. 



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greenish yellow ; loral skin yellow " ( W. V. Legge). Total length 

 about 18 inches, culmen 2-G, wing 8"7, tail 3'2, tarsus 2*15, middle 

 toe and claw 2*4. 



Adult in luinter plumage. Brown above, with yellowish longitu- 

 dinal centres to the scapulars ; the wings and tail white as well as 

 the lower back and rump ; forehead and crown blackish, streaked 

 with ochraceous buflf; sides of face and sides of neck ochraceous 

 bufif, longitudinally streaked with blackish, with which the feathers 

 are edged ; throat and under surface of body white, with broad 

 black streaks on the lower throat and fore-neck. 



Colonel Legge, in his description of the winter plumage, says that 

 the wing-coverts are shaded with brownish bufif: this is always the 

 case with young birds, which also have the outer primaries more or 

 less dusky. Occasionally also the adult birds in their winter plumage 

 have a similar dusky shading on their quills ; so that the only 

 character for distinguishing young birds from the winter plumage 

 of the adults lies in the blacker crown of the latter, that of the 

 young birds being of a deep ochre or tawny yellowish, somewhat 

 narrowly streaked with black. 



The only difference that I can see between the young of A. grayi 

 and A. ralloides is the somewhat darker brown back of the latter. 



Hab. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, to the Burmese Provinces 

 and Cochin China, and apparently extending to Malacca. Occurring 

 westwards to the Persian Gulf. 



a. 2 imm. sk. 



b. Juv. sk. 



c. Juv. sk. 



d. 2 ji-iv. sk. 



e. $ ad. sk. 



f,ff- 6 2 ad. sk. 



k. Juv. sk. 



t, k. 2 ad. et juv. 



I, m. Ad. sk. 



n, o,p. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 q. Ad. sk. 



r, s. Ad. et imm. sk. 

 t. Ad. sk. 

 M, V, w. Ad. et iuv. 



sk. •' 



X. cJ imm. sk. 



y, z. Juv. sk. 



a'. cJ imm. sk. 



b'. Ad.sk. 

 c', d'. Juv. sk. 

 e'-h'. Imm. sk. 



VOL. XXVI, 



Bushire, Persian Gulf, 



April 16. 

 Afghanistan {Griffith). 

 Sind (Dr. Gould). 

 Kiver Jhelum, March 11. 

 Mount Aboo, June 3 {G. 



King). 

 Sambbur, June {R. M. 



Adam). 

 Sirza, Punjab. 

 Gm-gaon District, Aug.,Feb. 



( W. N. Chill). 

 Etawah. 

 Oudh (Pinwill). 



Kamptee. 

 Mhow, Oct., Dec. 

 Khandeish. 

 Deccan (Sykes). 



Khandala, April 21 (S. B. 

 Fairbaiik). 



Ahmednuggur {S. B. Fair- 

 bank). 



Belgaum, June {E. A. 

 Butler). 



Mysore (Coussmaker). 



Coorg. 



Travancore {F. BourdiUon) 



A. J. V. Palmer, Esq. 



India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 Dr. Aitchison [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Dr. E. B. Hinde [P.], 

 Colonel Swinhoe. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 (Types of the species.) 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



Himie Coll. 



Gould CoU. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

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