486 BRITISH BIRDS. 
ARDEA COMATA. 
SQUACCO HERON. 
(PLate 38.) 
Ardea botaurus minor, 
Ardea cancrofagus, Briss. Orn. v. pp. 452, 466, 471, 472 (1760). 
Ardea cancrofagus rufus neevius, 
Ardea cancrofagus luteus, 
Ardea ralloides, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 88 (1769). 
Ardea castanea, Gel, Reise Russl. i. p. 165 (1770). 
Ardea marsigli, 
Ardea pumila, 
Ardea comata, Pall. Reise Russ, Reichs, ii. p. 715 (1773); et auctorum pluri- 
morum—Temminck, Naumann, (Bonaparte), Bechstein, Vieillot, Keyserling § 
Blasius, Tristram, Lord Lilford, Schlegel, E. Newton, Wright, Sclater, (Irby), 
Homeyer, Goebel, Reichenow, Finsch § Hartlaub, Heuglin, Layard, &c. 
Ardea squaiotta, 
Ardea erythropus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pp. 634, 645 (1788). 
Ardea senegalensis, 
Ardea griseo-alba, Bosc, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, i. no. 569 (1792). 
Ardea audax, Lapeyrouse, Neue schwed, Abh. iii. p. 106 (1794). 
Ardea botaurulus, Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. p. 221 (1798). 
Ardea deaurata, Merr. Ersch § Grub. Encyel. v. p. 173 (1820). 
Ardeola ralloides (Scop.), Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 559. 
Cancrophagus ralloides (Scop.), Kaup, Nat. Syst. p. 42 (1829). 
ek cae ee ane | srekm, Vig. Deutselt. pp. 588, 580 (1831). 
Nycticorax ralloides (Scop.), Zempr. § Ehr. Symb. Phys, Aves, fol. m (1833). 
Eeretta comata (Pall.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 354 (1837). 
Botaurus comatus (Paill.), Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 125 (1842). 
Lepechin, Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. p. 502 (1770). 
The Squacco Heron must be regarded as a very rare straggler to the 
British Islands, principally on spring migration, It was first recorded as 
a British bird by Latham, who mentions one example obtained at Boynton, 
in Wiltshire, in 1775 (Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 802), and a second at 
Ormsby Broad, in Norfolk, in 1820 or 1822 (Gen. Hist. B. ix. p. 110). 
It does not appear to have been noticed again until 1831, from which date 
until 1867 twenty-two examples occurred, most of which were obtained 
in the counties on the south coast of England and in Norfolk and Suffolk; 
one example, however, was obtained in Nottinghamshire, one in Durham, 
one in Cumberland, and one in Ireland. During the last seventeen years 
there does not appear to have been any record of its occurrence in England, 
