ARDEA. — MKsopnorx. 115 



The eggs of the American Great White Heron in the Collection 

 measure respectively : l!-()3 by 1"S ; '2-4o by 1'78 ; 2'55 by 1-85 ; 

 2-.") bv 1"S5 ; 2*4:4- by ISo. A remarkably small specimen measures 

 2- 18 "by 1-62. 



1. Florid-A (Atulubuti : Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Marquesas Keys, Florida, lOtli Jau. Seebohm Coll, 



1. Little Spanish Keys, Florida, 19tli Seebohm Coll. 

 Jan. 



1. Johnston Keys, Florida, 2nd Jan. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Johnston Keys, 2nd Feb. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MESOPHOYX, Sharpe. 



Mesophoyx intermedia ( ]Va(jl.). 



Ardea intermedia, Laijard, Ann. S)- Mwj. N. H. 2nd ser. xiv. p. Ill 



(18o4). 

 Herodias intermedia, Leqye, Birdi Ceylon, p. 1141 (1880) 5 Oates ed. 



Hume, Nests ^- Eijy's hid. B. iii. p. 210 (1890). 

 Mesophoyx intermedia, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 85 (1898) : id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The eggs of the Lesser Egret measure from 1"72 to 2-05 in length, 

 and from 1*26 to l*o in breadth. 



1. Etawah, X.W. Prov., India, 10th Hume Coll. 



Mesophoyx plumifera {Gould). 



Herodias egrettoides, Gould, Handb. Birds Atistr. ii. p. .303 (18G5) ; 



Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 341 ; Campbell, Nests & Eggs Aiistr. Birds. 



p. 58 (i883). 

 Mesophoyx plumifera, Sharpe, Cut. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. S7 (1898) ; id 



Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The three eggs of the Plumed Egret in the Collection measure 

 respectively : 1-8 by 1-3.5; l-8:r by 1-33; l-7o by 13-9. 



3. North Australia. Gould CoU. 



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