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Genus HERODIAS, Boie. 

 Herodias alba {Linn.). 



Ardea alba, Thien. Fortpflanz. (jes. Yog. tab. Ixix. fig. 3 (1845-54) ; 



Hewit.son, Egi/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 274, pi. 75. fig. i (1846) ; 



Layard, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. 2ud .ser. xiv. p. Ill (1854) ; Dresser, 



Birds Eur. m. p. 231 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 477, pi. 38 



(1884) ; id. Egf/s of Brit. Birds, p. 61, pi. 17. fig. 8 (1896). 

 Egretta alba, Baedeker, Eier Em: Viiq. tab. 60. fig. 4 (1855-63) : Neivton, 



F. Z. S. 1861, p. 398, pi. xxxix. fig. 6. 

 Herodias alba, Leqge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1138 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, 



Nests 4- E(igs 'ind. B. iii. p. 237 (1890) ; Hharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxvi. p. 90 (1898) : id. Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The eggs of the Great White Egret varj- extremely in size, those 

 taken in Europe being much larger than those taken in India. The 

 former measure from 2-35 to 2'7 in length, and from 1-7 to 1*77 in 

 breadth. The latter vary from 1-88 to 2-38 in length, and from 1-4 

 to 1*6 in breadth. 



3. Bulgaria, 12th May. Seebohm Coll. 

 S. Servia, 22nd May. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Astrakhan, 24th July. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. N.W. Provinces, India, 20th June Hume boU. 



( W. E. Brooks). 



1. N.W. Provinces, 11th Julv ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



B.). 



3. Etavvah, N.W. Prov., IGth Aug. Hume Coll. 



{A. O. Hume). 



4. Utchulda, Julv ( W. E. Brooks : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



3. 'Futieht'urh (A. Anderson). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Allahabad. Hume Coll. 



5. Allahabad, 20th July. Hume Coll. 

 7. Jhansi, 7th Aug. {F. F. Bleicitt). Hume Coll. 



2. Ceylon (E. L. Layard). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



2. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 

 1. Trincomalee, Ceylon, 30th Jan. Crowlev Bequest. 



( W. V. Legg'e). 



Herodias egretta (Wilson). 



Ardea egretta, Thien. Fortpjlanz. qes. V'og. tab. Ixix. fig. 4 (1845-54) r 



Gxbson, Ibis, 1880, p. 156 ; Scott, Auk, vi. p. 17 (1889) ; Scl. S)- Huds. 



Argent. Orn. ii. p. 98 (1889) ; James, Netc List Chilian Birds, p. 8 



(1892) ; Christy, /fris, 1897, p. .340. 

 Herodias egretta, Baird, Breicer ^- Fidgic. Wafer Birds N. Am. i. p. 23 



(1884) : Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 95 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 195 (1899) ; von Ihering, Fev. Mies. Paulista, iv. p. 274 (1900). 



The eggs of the American Egret measure from 2 to 2-45 in length, 

 and from I'o to 1*62 in breadth. 



3. Florida (Hetishaw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3, Panasofkee Lake, Florida, 13th Princeton Uuiversitv, N.J. [E.]. 

 March (jr. £•. Z». .Sco«). 



