236 A.EDE1D^. 



the scapulars being black with ochreous margins ; the minor coverts 

 round the edge of the wing chestnut, the median coverts pale 

 ochreous with yellowish-white or whitish edges to the feathers, 

 imparting a streaked appearance, many of the greater coverts chest- 

 nut on the inner webs ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts chestnut, 

 with black bases ; quills black, broadly tipped with chestnut, in- 

 creasing in extent on the secondaries, the first primary white along 

 the outer web, the inner secondaries chestnut with dusky bases and 

 yellowish margins ; tail-feathers dark brown in the centre with 

 yellowish-buff margins ; crown of head and neck ashy brown, with 

 a median streak along the crown, consisting of black elongated 

 feathers, tinged Avith rufous on the forehead ; sides of face slightly 

 washed with yellowish buff, as also the feathers of the frill which 

 hides the neck ; under surface of body white, with a central streak 

 of bufl' down the throat : tbe fore-neck and chest streaked with 

 yellowish buff, and slightly varied with dusky shaft-lines, the 

 flanks being longitudinally centred with black ; thighs yellowish 

 buff externally, mottled with black bases to the feathers, the inner 

 aspect of the thighs white like the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts white, washed with yellowish buff; axillaries 

 white, washed with yellowish buff, but somewhat shaded with ashy 

 near the base ; on each side of the breast a patch of dependent 

 plumes which are blackish Avith yellowish-buff margins : " bill 

 yellowish green ; legs and toes lemon-green ; iris straw-yellow " 

 {P. Withington). Total length 11-5 inches, culmen I'o, wing 5, 

 tail 1-8, tarsus 1-5. 



Ilab. Paraguay, Southern Brazil, and N". Patagonia ; Chili, 



a. $ ad. sk. Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Ayres, Sclater Coll. 



Sept. (F. Withington). 



b. Ad. sk. Punta Lara, Buenos Ayres, Oct. 19. H. Durnford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Uruguay. Alan Peel, Esq. [O.]. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Eio Negro, Patagonia, Dec. 3 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{W. H. Hu(ho7i). 



e. d' ad. sk. ChWi [Weisshanpt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Chili (E. C. Reed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



10. Ardetta cinnamomea. 



Cinnamon Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 77 (1785). 



Ardea cinnamomea, (??». -S. N. i. p. 643 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Sist. 

 Nat. xiv. p. 426 (1817) ; Wagler, Syst. Av., Ardea, p. 191, sp. 39 

 (1827); Raffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 326 (1822) ; Gray S,- Hardw. 

 III. Lid. Zool. i. pi. 66. fig. 1 (1832) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardese, 

 p. 40 (1863 : Java ; Borneo ; Philippines) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 31, no. 10146 (1871) ; Jlume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. B. p. 622 

 (1873); Briiggem. Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 97(1876: 

 Celebes). 



Ardea nebulosa, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 190 (1821). 



Botaurus cinnamonieus, Fra7iklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 124 ; Reichen. 

 J.f. 0. 1877, p. 245. 



