28. BUBULCUS. 213 



wings ; head and neck all round pale tawny buff, the long orna- 

 mental nape-plumes of the same colour, with white tips ; the hind- 

 neck, sides of neck, and fore-neck deep ferruginous ; remainder of 

 under surface, including the under wing-coverts, white : " bill 

 greenish black, base of lower mandible greenish yellow ; feet and 

 tarsus olive-green ; iris yellowish " {F. H. H. Oaillemanl). Total 

 length about 15 inches, culmen 2-Q, wiug 8-15, tail 3, tarsus 2-4, 

 middle toe and claw 2-5. 



Young. Scarcely to be distinguished from that of A. grayi, but 

 somewhat more ashy brown on the back. 



Hah. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sumbawa, and Celebes. 



28. BUBULCUS. „ 



Type. 



Bubulcus, Bp. Ann. Sci. Nat. (^4) i. p. 141 (1854) B. lucidus. 



Range. Southern Europe. The whole of Africa ; Central Asia, 

 India, China, the Malayan Peninsula and Islands, to the Molucca 

 Islands. 



Keg to the Species, 

 ■a. White, with the crest aad dorsal train vinous 



sienna or pale vinous isabelline ; ornamental 



plumes of the same colour lucidus, p. 213. 



J). White, but with the crest, throat, and fore-neck 



orange ; the dorsal plumes and ornamental 



feathers on the neck vinous sienna, tinged 



with orange or golden coromandus, p. 217, 



1. Bubulcus lucidus. 



Ardea ibis, Linn, in Hasselq. Iter. p. 248 (1757) ; ScJil. Mus. Pays- 



^as, Ardeae, p. 31 (1863: Senegal; Gold Coast; Nile; Sicily); 



id. ^- Pollen, Faiine Madar/., Ois. p. 124 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. S. 



iii. p. 29, no. 10132 (1871); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Abth. i. 



p. 1069 (1873 : resident ; breeds between 14° and 18° N. Lat. ; 



lowlands of Abyssinia ; Arabia Petrsea) ; Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 67 (Madacrascar) ; Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 296 (1876 : Murdab, 



Caspian) ; Newton, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 301 (Anjuan) ; Britsina, 



Motr. etc. (Orn. Croat), -p. 72 (1890). 

 Le Petit Heron blanc, Briss. Orn. v. p. 438 (1760). 

 Tantalus ibis (pt.), Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 241 (1766). 

 Ardea c-equinoctialis, var. ^, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 641 (1788). 

 Ardea sequinoctialis {nee L.), Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 197 



(1808 : Devonshire) ; Leach, iSyst. Cat. Mamm. 8fO. Brit. Mm. 



p. 33 (1816 : Devonshire). 



