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toverts ochreous, as also the under surface, which has the usual 

 reddish bands on the fore-neck and the black-centred feathers ou 

 the sides of the chest ; the primarj'-coverts and quills are uniform 

 blackish, only slightly mottled with rufous : " bill yellowish olive 

 in some, greenish horn-colour in others ; space round the eye and 

 feet beautiful pale green ; iris yellow in some, lilac-red in others " 

 (./. Gould). Total length 24 inches, culmen 2*8, wing 12-5, tail 4*5, 

 tarsus 3-9. 



YouH(f. Distinguished from the adults by its more uniform 

 yellow tint and by the quiUs being mottled and barred with rufous 

 more in the manner of B. stellaris ; crown of head and ruff pale 

 smoky brown, the under surface ochreous buff and the streaks very 

 rufous, especially the one down the centre of the throat. 



Hah. Australia and New Zealand ; New Caledonia. 



a. Ad. sk. Australia. 



b. Juv sk. New South Wales. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Queensland. 

 e. Ad. sk. Murray River, S. Australia. 



/. Ad. sk. Tasmania. 



g. 5 ad. sk. Tasmania {Dr. McCormick). 



h. Juv. sk. New Zealand. 



i. Juv. sk. New Zealand. 



k. Ad. sk. New Zealand. 



I. cJ ad. sk. New Zealand. 



m. Ad. sk. New Zealand. 



n. Ad. sk. New Zealand. 



0. Imm. sk. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



p. 2 inim. sk. Otago, New Zealand. 



q. Ad. sk. Dunedin, New Zealand, July. 



/•. luim. sk. Wellington, New Zealand. 



s. c? imm. sk. Ansevata, Noumea, New Cale- 

 donia, Dec. 2 (K L. Latjard). 



4. Botaurus lentiginosus. 



Purchased. 



Imperial Institute [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



C. D. E. Fortnum, 

 Esq. [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



Antarctic Exped. 



McCormick Bequest. 



Sir G. Grey [P. |. 



Sir E. Home [?:]._ 



Antarctic Expedition. 



Miss R. Stone [P.]. 



Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



Antarctic Exped. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Voy. H.M.S. 'Chal- 

 lenger.' 



Seebohm CoU. 



The Bittern from Hudson's Bay, Edwards, Nat. Hist. E. iii. p. 136, 



pi. 136 (1748). 

 Le Butor de la Baye de Hudson, Briss. Orn. v. p. 449 (1760). 

 Ardea stellaris, var., Forst. I'hil. Trans. Ixii. p. 410 (1772). 

 Le Butor de la bale d'lludson. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 430 



(1780). 

 Bittern, var. A, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. -58 (1785). 

 Ardea stellaris, var. /3, Gm. Syd. Nat. i. p. G36 (1788). 

 Ardea lentiginosa, Montayu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. (1813) ; Swaiju. Sf 



llichards. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 374 (1831); Temm, Man. 



d'Orn. iv. p. 381 (1840) ; Keijs. ^- Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. Ixxx, 220 



(1840). 

 Ardea minor, Wilson, Amer. Orn. viii. p. 35, pi. Ixv. fig. 3 (1814^ ; 



Aiahtb. B. Amer. pi. 337 (c. 1826); id. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 206 



(18.!8) ; id. B. Amer. 8vo, vi. p. 94, pi. 365 (1843) ; Button, Zool. 



I8i;8, p. 1098 (I'^ast Sussex). 

 Ardea mokoho, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 440 (1817); 



Wagl. Sy.if. Av., .\rdea, p. 185, sp. 29 (1827). 

 Botaurus lentiginosus, Step/tens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. pt. 2, p. 596, 



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