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Genu8 AKDEOLA, Boie. 

 Ardeola ralloides {Scop.). 



Ardea eomata, Thien. Fortpfiayn. ges. Vog. tab. Ixix. fig. 9 (1845-54) ; 



Tristram, Ihis, 1860, p. 16-3 ; Cowan, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. 



p. 149 (1881'; ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 486, fig. 38 (1884) ; Milne-^ 



Edwards ^- Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 554, pi. cccv. 



fig. 10 (1885) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 62, pi. 17. fig. 2' 



(1896). 

 Buphus comatus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 59. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Ardea ralloides. Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 251 (1879). 

 Ardeola ralloide.s, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x.wi. p. 202 (1898) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 201 (1899). 



The eggs of the Squacco Heron vary from 1-45 to 1*65 in length,, 

 and from 1*06 to 1-2 in breadth. 



11. 



Kalarash, Lower Danube, 27th 



May (H. Seehohm). 

 Hirsova, Lower Danube, 12th June 



{H. S.). 

 Save River, Servia, 22ud May. 

 Astrakhan. 

 Lake Halloula, Algeria, 12th Jime 



{H. B. Tristram). 

 Lake Halloula, loth June {H. 



B. T.). 

 Lake HaUoula, June {H. B. T.). 

 Zana, Algeria, 6th June {H. 



B. T). 

 Zana, 9th June {H. B. T.). 

 Betsileo, Madagascar ( W. Deani 



Cowan). 



Seehohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seehohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Ardeola grayi (Si/kes). 



Ardeola leucoptera, Layard, A. M. N. H. 2nd ser. xiv. p. 112 (1854). 

 Ardeola gravi, Leqqe, Birds Ceylon, p. 1150 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests 



l^- Eqqslnd. 'B. iii. p. 248 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 



p. 207 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 201 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Squacco Heron measure from 1"35 to \'Q5- 

 in length, and from 14 to 1-25 in breadth. 



