1. SCOPUS. 289- 



Hartl. Vog. Madnq. p. 311 (1877) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 12 

 (Loant,'o Coast) ; ll. ib!d. pp. i^.'il, 27fi; Cab. J. ' f. O. 1878, p. 245 

 (Kitiii in Ukambi) ; Fischer Sf Reichen. toin. cit. p. 249 (Osi- 

 Tana dislr. ; Kail; Wito) ; iid. J. f. O. 1879, p. 339 (Ulinii); 

 Oustalet, Nouo. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 145 (1879) ; At/res, 

 Ibis, 1880, p. 268 (Transvaal) ; Rocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 457 

 (1881 •. Ilumbe) ; SheUet/, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 600 (Usanibara Hills) ; 

 Sharpe in Oafcs'.s. Matabele Land, App. B. p. 327 (1881 : Maka- 

 lapsi R.) ; Mi/iic-Edwards ^ Grand-'d. Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. 

 p. 514, pis. ccviii.-ci-x. (1882) ; Salt). Cat. Strickl. Coll. p, 522 

 (1882); Holub S,- Peh. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 277 cum tab. 

 (18S2); Bohm, J. f. O. 1882, p. 192 (Kakoma) ; Shelley, Ibi.s, 

 1882, p. 3(i4 (Mashooua) ; Butler, Feilden, i^ Reid, Zoologist, 

 1882, p. 344 (Natal); Beddard, P. Z. S. 1884, pp. 544-553 

 (anatomy); Sharpe, ed. Lngard's B. S. Afr. p. 725 (1884); 

 Johnston, River Congo, p. 370 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 

 i. p. 384 (1884 : Great Aruscba) ; Salvad. Ann. Miis. Genov. (2) 

 i. p. 229 (1884: Shoa) ; Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 118 (Pangani; 

 Arusuha; Naiwascha Lake) ; IIartert,J.f. O. 1886, p. 606 (Loko, 

 R. Niger) ; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 48 (Victoria Nyanza, breed- 

 ing) ; Matschie, t. c. p. 146 (Likulwe) ; Reichen. t. c. p. 299 

 (JVlanyanga) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) vi. p. 315 (1888: 

 Sboaj; Biittik. Notes Legd. Mus, ix. p. 244 (1888: Humpata) ; 

 id. op. cit. xi. p. 199 (1889: Upper Cunene River) ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 189U, p. 127 (Chagga, 4500 ft., Southern .slope of Kilimanjaro) ; 

 Reichen. J.f. O. 1890, p. 108 (Camoroons) ; id. ibid. 1891, p. 142 

 (Naing\vira,Ugogo) ; Emin, t. c. p. 345 (Albert Nvauza) ; Beddard, 

 P. Z. S. 1891, p. 18, fig. 46; Sibree, Ibis, 1891, p. 211 (Mada- 

 gascar) ; Randall, Ibis, 1892, p. 227 (Gambia) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 342 

 (Machakos); Neivton, Did. Birds, ii. p. 405 (1895); Reichen. 

 Viig. dctitsch-Ost-Afr. p. 61, fig. 32(1894); Shellei/, Ibis, ISM, 

 p. 477 (Fort Lister, Nvasa-land) ; Fleck, J. f. O. 1894, p. 387 

 (S.W. Africa) ; Sharpe,' P. Z. S. 1895, p. 511 (Somali-land) ; Scl. 

 ^- Saunders, Ibis, 1895, p. 500 ; Sjostedt, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 

 27, no. 1, p. 32 (1895 : Cameroons) ; Shufeldt, Science Monthly, 

 xlvi. p. 760 (1895); Yerbury, Ibis, 1896, p. 38 (Aden); Shelley, 

 t. c. p. 176 (Nyasa-land) ; id. B. Africa, i. p. 159 (1896) ; Wood- 

 ward, Ibis, 1897, p. 415 (Zulu-land) ; Sharpe, t. c, p. 517. 



Cepphus Scopus, Wagl. Syst. Av. p. 74 (1827). 



Ardea fusca, Furst. Descr. Anim. p. 47 (1844). 



Adidt male. General colour above broun with a slight gloss of 

 bronzy-purple, especially on the wings and tail ; the primary-coverts 

 and primaries bronzy-brown, with dusky-brown ends and reddish- 

 brown shafts ; head very strongly crested and brown in colour like 

 the back, the long crest-ftathers a little blacker ; sides of face 

 brown, streaked with ashy brown ; under surface of bod)' brown, 

 with a slight api)earauce of ashy-brown streaks on the throat and 

 fore-neck, the chin more ashy ; tail light brown, barred with 

 blackish or purplish brown, and having a broad band of purplish 

 brown before the end of the tail, which is whity-brown ; under 

 ■wing-coverts and quill-lining brown, the latter with a purplish 

 gloss ; under tail-coverts light brown, with very distinct bars of 

 darker brown: "bill horn-black; feet dingy black; iris umber- 



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