31. NANNOCNUS. 243 



p. 447, pi. 119 (1877) ; Blakist. ^- Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 223 



(Yezo) ; Sharps, Ibis, 1879, p. 271 (Lawas River) ; Blakist. ^■ 



Fryer, B. Japan, p. 118 (1882) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, 



p. 12 (1884: Yezo; Yokohama); Stejn. Froc. U.S. Nut. Mus. x. 



p. 291 (Hakodate ; Cochin China) ; Everett, Journ. Straits Branch 



Asiat. Soc. 1889, p. 190 ; Stt/an, Ibis, 1891, pp. 327, 493 (Lower 



Yangtse, ? breedinof) ; De La louche, Ibis, 1892, p. 489 (Foochow ; 



Swatow) ; Tacz. Mini. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. 



p. 989 (1893); Shai-pe, Bull. B. O. Club, iii. no. xvi. p. xxxi 



(1894). 

 Ardetta sinensis (nee Gm.), Tacz. J.f. O. 1874, p. 325 (Ai-gun E., 



nesting) ; Cab. t. c. p. 325, note; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 24 



(Bintulu). 

 Botaurus eiirhythmus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 245 ; Seeb. B. Japan. 



Emjy. p. 227 (1890: Yezo; Hakodate; Yokohama). 

 Ardeola eurvthma, Boyd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. fasc. i. p. 114 (1884). 

 Ardetta riedeli, MnjerSf Wiylesw. Abhandl. Mus. Dresden, 1894-95, 



no. 4, p. 2 (1894) ; iid. op. cit. no. 8, p. 19 (1895) ; Sharpe, Bull. 



B. O. Club, V. no. xxxi. p. xiii (1895). 

 Nannocnus eurythmus, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. Club, v. no. xxxi. p. xiii 



(1895). 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut-bro\m ; lesser wing- 

 coverts and feathers round the bend of the wing also chestnut- 

 brown ; bastard- wing feathers chestnut, the outer ones blackish 

 internally, with white on the outer margins ; remainder of wing- 

 coverts olive cla}'-colour, ashy near the ends of the feathers, the 

 innermost greater coverts chestnut like the scapulars ; innermost 

 secondaries also washed with chestnut, remainder of quills and 

 primary-coverts ashy brown, paler at the tips, which are fringed 

 with whitish, the first primary margined with ochreous : tail dark 

 l)rown ; crown of head and nape dusky brown ; sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and neck-frill maroon : a broad band of white running from 

 the middle of the cheeks down the sides of the neck ; fore part of 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface of body ochreous buff ; under tail- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries white; on the throat 

 some slight indications of longitudinal duskj' spots ; the feathers of 

 the fore-neck elongated ; on each side of the chest a patch of black 

 feathers with ochreous margins : " bill blackish brown on culmen, 

 yellowish brown on the rest, darker on the sides of upper mandible 

 near tomia, light on sides of lower and on genys ; cere and bare 

 skin round eye purplish flesh-colour, tinged with green ; legs and 

 toes grass-green, yellow near the tarso-tibial joint and on the under 

 surface of the tarsus ; soles clay-coloured ; claws light yellowish 

 brown ; iris straw-colour " (R. Swinhoe). Total length 12 inches, 

 culmen 1"95, wing .5'9, tail l-oo, tarsus 2. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Dusky reddish brown, 

 spotted all over with ochraceous buff, the feathers externally spotted 

 or notched with this colour ; wing-coverts like the back, but largely 

 edged and spotted with ochreous : head Uke the back ; sides of face 

 dull chestnut, with a band of white from the hinder cheeks down 

 the sides of the neck : under surface of body ochreous buff, plentifully 

 streaked vrith blackish brown, tinged with rufous; the lower abdomen 



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