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These two not fully adult males have the greater wing- 
coverts of a lighter grey than in specimens of the same 
age from Holland. 
Mesophoyx intermedia (Wagler). 
Ardea intermedia Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659. 
Mesophoyx intermedia, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XX VI, 1898, p. 85. 
N°, 494, O, Pésing near Batavia, 10 August 1908. 
Malay name: koentoel. 
According to Mr. Jacobson these herons are often to be 
seen accompanying the kerbaus and the cattle. Usually at 
each side of the grazing animal a heron is standing. 
Bubulcus ibis coromanda (Boddaert). 
Caneroma coromanda Boddaert, Tab. Pl. Enl. 1783, p. 54. 
Bubuleus coromandus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p. 217. 
N°. 313, not sexed, Bekassie, Krawang, 21 June 1908. 
— 745, 746, 747, 748, 749, 750, oo’ and QQ, Rawa 
Képoeh, Tanggeran, 26—29 November 1908. 
_ Malay names: boeka opi and koentoel. 
Butorides striata javanica (Horsfield). 
Ardea javanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XIII, 1822, p. 190. 
Butorides javanica, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XX VI, 1898, p. 177. 
Nes, 559, 560, oo’, Empang Pakis, Krawang, 4 Octo- 
ber 1908. 
— 561,564, Of, Soengei Asem, Krawang, 5 October 1908. 
— 562, 568,97, Rawa Gempol, Krawang, 7 October 1908. 
Malay name: kokokan laoet, and at Tjabang boengin, 
pantjok. 
This smaller form (wing 162—169 mm.) is the common 
Javan form. The larger form (wing about 200 mm.), Bu- 
torides striata amurensis (Schrenck), is a rare migrant to 
Java; in the Leyden Museum is only one young example, 
collected by H. Boie in 1826 or 1827 in Western Java. 
The statement of Vorderman, that Butorides s. stagnatilis 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXII. 
