130 



3. Lake Ilalloula, Algeria, 14tb June 



{H. B. Tristram). 

 1. Egypt (£. C. Taylor). 

 3. Lahej, Arabia. 

 6. Lahej. 



Seebolim Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Colonel J. W. Yerburv 'P.] 



A. B. Percival, Esq. [C.]. 



Bubulcus coromandus {Bodd.). 

 (Plate Y. fig. 2.) 



Ardea bubulcus, Layard, Ann. ^- May. Nut. Hist. {2) xiv. p. Ill (18o4). 



Bubulcus coromaudus, Leyge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1147 (1880); Oates ed. 

 Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 247 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bvyh 

 B. M. xxvi. p. 217 (1808) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 202 (1890). 



The eggs of the Indian Cattle-Egret are, as a rule, rather smaUer 

 than those of B. lucidus, \y\xi they are otherwise very similar to them. 

 They measure from 1*6 to \-'ib in length, and from 1"22 to ]'4 in 

 breadth. 



4. 



3. 



1. 



1. 



4. 



6. 



6. 



7. 



3. 



6. 

 21. 

 29. 



Sind (E. A. Butler). 

 Umballa, Punjab, 1st July. 

 Kahun, Etawali, lOtb Aug. 



{W.E.Brooks). 

 RahuD, 13th Aug. ( W. E. B). 

 Etawah, Aug. 

 Etawah, 14tli Aug. 

 Etawah, 16th Aug. 

 Etawah, 2")th Aug. 

 Etawah ( W. E. Brooks). 

 Futtegurh (A. A. Anderson). 

 Jhansi, July. 



Jhansi, 7tli" July (F. R. Bhxvitt). 

 Jhansi, lOth July {F. R. B.). 

 Jhansi, 5th Aug" (/'. R. B.). 

 Raipur. 



Sambhur, 30th June (R. M. Adam). 

 Sambhur, 1st July {R. M. A.). 

 Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 13th 



April (Miss Cockburn). 

 Ceylon (E. L. Layard). 

 Ceylon. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume C..11. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Plume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

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



Genu.s ARDETTA, Gray. 



Ardetta minuta {Linn.). 



Ardea minuta, Thien. Fortpfianz. ges. Viig. tab. Ixx. fig. 1, a, b (184'5-54). 

 Ardeola minuta. Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 59. fig. 5 (185o-G3). 

 Botaurus minutus, Hetcitson, Eqgs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 315, pi. Ixxxiii. 



tig. i (1856); Seebohm, Brit. Bird.<, ii. p. .510, pi. 38 (1884); id.] 



Eggs of Brit Birds, p. 65, pi. 17. Hg. 9 (1896). 

 Ardetta minuta, iSV(/('/w, //^v,-, 1859, p. 358 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1860, p. 771 



Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 259 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests i^- EgA 



Ind. B. iii. p. 257 (1890) : Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 22 



(1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 202 QSOO). 



