29. ARDETTA. 235 



Ardea pusilla, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 432 (1817) ; 

 Wciyler, Syst. Av., Ardea, p. 97, sp. 44 (1827) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 



p. 566 (1847). 

 Ardetta punctata, Gray, List Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 83 (1844). 

 Ardetta pusilla, Gould, B. Austr. vi. pi. 68 (3848) ; ReicJietib. Vog. 



NeuhoU. p. 201 (1850) ; Gould, Handh. B. Austr. ii. p. 319 



(1865). 

 Ardeola pusilla, Bp. C. R. xl. p. 722 (1855). 

 Ardeola novae zelaiidiaj, Purdie, Tr. N. Z. Inst. iii. p. 99 (1870). 

 Ardetta maculata, Buller, B. N. Zeal. p. 235 (1873) ; ip. op. cit. 2nd 



ed. ii. p. 136 (1888). 

 Botaurus maculatus, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 243. 

 Ardetta minuta {nee L.), Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 21 



(1888). 



Adult, Very similar to A. e.vUis of North America, but having 

 no rufous tips to the primary-coverts or any of the quills ; the 

 inner greater coverts are entirely clay-brown, like the median 

 series, and the outer asjjcct of the innermost secondaries is also of 

 the same colour, and not chestnut as in A. exilis : " bill yeUow, the 

 culmen nearly black ; feet yellow ; space round the eye yellow ; 

 iris orange " {J. Gould). Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-8, 

 •wing 5-2, tail 2, tarsus 1-6. 



Hah. Australia : Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Australia from Rocking- 

 ham Bay to Victoria and S. Australia; New Zealand. 



a, b. ad. sk. Queensland {J. T. Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



c. Juv. sk. AustraUa. Old Coll. 



(Type oi A. punctata.) 



8. Ardetta involucris. 



Garza varia, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 185 (1803). 



Axdea variegata (nee Scop.), J'ieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 424 



(1817). 

 Ardea involucris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1127 (1823); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 31, no. 10152 (1871). 

 Ardea exilis, pt., Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 23 (1847). 

 Ardea erythromelas, pt., Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 23 (1847) ; Burm. 



Th. Bras. iii. p. 413 (1856, pt.). 

 Ardetta involucris, Scl. Sf Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 634 ; iid. Nomenel. 



Av. Neotr. p. 125 (1873) ; Hudson, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 624; Durnf. 



Ibis, ]876, p. 162 (Bueuos Ayres, Oct.), 1877, p. 189, 1878, p. 62 



(nesting) ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 159 (Cape S. Antonio, nesting) : 



Baird, Brewer, Sf Ridyio. Wafer-B. N. Amer. i. p. 72, note (1884) ; 



Barroios, Auk, i. p. 271 (1884: Lower Uruguay); Withington, 



Ibis, 1888, p. 470 (Lomas de Zamora) ; .S't7. Sf Hudson, Argeiit. 



Orn. ii. p. 101, pi. xvii. (188U) ; Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 205 



(PZstancia E>partilla, breeding). 

 Botaurus erythromelas, pt., Reichen. J.j. O. 1877, p. 244. 

 Botaurus involucris, Ridgw. Mail. N. Amer. B. p. 128 (1887). 

 Ardetta ervtbrola;iua, Ilei/ie <^- Reichen. Nome?icl. Mus.Hein. p. 308 



(1890: Chili). 

 Butorides involucris, Scl. Ibis, 1893, p. 5G1. 



Adult. General aspect above striped, with black and deep ochre. 



