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Genus ARDEA.- Edges of mandibles distinctly serrated ; head crested; 

 feathers elongated and ornamented; plumes of fore-neck not 

 disintegrated : no dorsal train. 



707. V. suiiisitraiin. Raffles (A. rectirostris Gld.), Great-billed Heron. 

 Breast, abdomen, and under tail coverts slaty grej ; ornamental 

 plumes on chest pearl} grej ; head and chest feathers ashy grey or 

 Blate colour; the ornamental dorsal plumes pearly-grey. 

 Young baa abdominal feathers past edged. 

 Total length, about 50 in. . cnlmen, 6*5 in. ; tarsus, S in. 

 Hab. : 1, 2, 3. 



70s. A. Cinerea, Linn., Grey Heron. 



General colour grey : crown of head whit-', black on the 

 and tin- nape crest ; thighs white ; edge of wing white or creamy- 

 white 

 Total length, male about ."'>() in. : female about 39 in. 

 Hab.: :?, (6), 7. 



GENUS— MESOPHOYX. Edge of mandible distinctly serrated; head 

 crested, without ornamental plumes; fore-neck with disintegrated 

 pinnies ; an immense dorsal train. 



7'»!t. M. pllllllitVra. Gld. (Herodias egrettoides, Gld.; Herodias inter- 

 media, Ramsay ; Herodias melanopus, Ramsay, nee Wagler), Plumed 

 Egret. 



Plumage pure white ; hill, orbits, and hare skin of face yellow ; 

 feet and lower pari of tarsi black, upper part of tarsi inclining to 

 flesh (•'- lour : i distinct loral black pitch. 



Total length, '2~y in : cnlmen. 3*1 in ; wing, 11 in. : tail, 5*4 in : 

 tarsus. 4*05 in. : middle toe ami claw, :> 7 in. 

 Hab. : 1, -J, :;, I. 6, 8, !i. 



- -HERODIAS.— Edge of mandible not serrated; no crest plumes ; 

 a well-developed dorsal train. 



7H>. II. tilliorionsis. Less. (H. alba, //"• Linn., Gould's Handbook, ii., 



p. 301 : sec also British Museum Catalogue Birds, \\\i., p. ~2~0. 

 Appendix }, White Egret. 



Plumage white ; hill black in .summer, yellow in winter ; lores and 

 orbits I'll-- green; feet hlackish, tibiae paler; train of pinnies 

 imposed feathers) short, just passing tail. 



Measurements of Australian race : — Total length, 30 in. ; cnlmen, 



■\\ in. : wing, 15 in : tail, Ii.!) in. ; tarsus, 5*2 to G"4 in. 

 Hah. : 1 to 9. 



NOTOPHOI V Tarsus not twice the length of outer toe and 

 claw. A full crest, but no elongated pair of nape plumes. 



Til. \. DOVffi-hollandise, Lath. (Ardea novse-hollandise), White- 

 fronted Heron. 



Plumage in general slaty-grey; forehead, eyebrow, and throat 

 white ; dorsal plumes grey ; sides of chest rinaceous ; hreast plumes 



are lanc< "lite. 



Hab. : 1 to 9. 



71--'. \. pacifica« Lath. (Ardea pacific*, Lath.), White-necked Heron. 



upper j olive green : breast and abdomen with large 



lanceolal I n hiti »; ■> large maroon patch of feathers on the 



"i th.- ohesl : head and cecs vinaceous or white, with some 



black marking! on the lower throat. Sometimes the seek is wholly 



white. Gould. 



. ; 1 to 0. 



