1872.] ON THE BIRDS OF CELEBES. 197 



Are the Moluccas the only, or at least the principal, winter residence of this species ] Its 

 occuiTence has only been once observed in India. 



Gallinago, Stephens. Tr. Z. s. viii. 



168. Gallinago megala, Swinhoe, Ibis, 18G1, p. 343, "Amoy;" Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ^' ' 

 Scolojpaces, p. 12. 



Hob. Gorontalo (Forsten) ; Gilolo, Batchian (Bernstein) ; China, Formosa {Swinhoe). 



AEDETD^. 



Ardea, Linnpeus. 



169. Ardea sumatrana, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 325, " Sumatra " (1822) ; Jerd. 

 Birds Ind. ii. p. 740 ; Gould, Birds Austr. ii. p. 296. 



Ardea tijphon. Temm. PI. Col. 475, "river Gambia" (errore), (Sept. 5, 1829); Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardea, p. 3. 



rectirostris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 22, " New South Wales." 



fusca, Blyth, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 176, "Arracan" (1844). 



insignis, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86. 



Typlion robusfa (S. Miill.), Bp. Consp. ii. p. 110, "Timor." 



Ardea goiiath, Temm., Bp. I. c, " Celebes." 



Ardeomega nohilis, "Blyth," Bp. I. c, nee Blyth. {Conf. Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 36.) 



Ilah. Celebes {Beinivardt) ; " Inde contiuentale," type of A. typhon, Temm. {Schlegel); 

 Morty Island, Batchian, Toloforo (Gilolo) {Bernstein) ; Sumatra {Baffles) ; Coburg Peninsula 

 (Gould); Clarence river (Australia) (Schlegel); Arracan (Bli/th); N.E. Bengal, Nepal, Sikim 

 Terai, Assam, (Jerdon) ; Sindh {drawing, Sir A. Burnes) ; Flores (Wallace). 



Ardeola, Boie. 



170. Akdeola speciosa (Horsf.), Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 188, "Java" (1822); Zool. Ees. 

 pi.-. 



Hah. Java (type) ; Celebes ( Wallace). 



I include the Javan form of A. leucoptera, Bodd.,=:^. malaccensis, Gm., on the authority 

 of Mr. Wallace. 



There appear to be four closely allied Asiatic species of Ardeola ; but they yet require to be 

 brought together and closely compared. 



1. A. leucoptera, Bodd., ex PI. Enl. 911,=^. malaccensis, Gm., ex PI. Enl. 911, "Malacca," 

 av. juv. Bupihns hacchus, Bp., having been described from a Malaccan individual, becomes a 

 synonym of the type species. 



2. A. grayi, Sykes, "India,"=^. leucoptera, Bodd., ap. Jerdon (B. of Ind.). 



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