ARDEID&. 381 
Genus, Bubulcus, Pucheran, 
Bill somewhat short, stout, slightly curved along the culmen, 
smooth ; feet longer, otherwise as in Egretta ; assumes golden- 
yellow, hair-like plumes on the head, breast, and back during 
the breeding season. 
Bubulcus coromandus, Bodd. 
929.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 749; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 23; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, 434; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 271 ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 136. 
THE CATTLE EGRET. 
Length, 21 ; expanse, 37 ; wing, 10:25 ; tail, 4; tarsus, 3:5 3 bill 
at front, 2°5. 
Bill deep orange-yellow ; orbitar region yellowish-pink ; irides 
pale yellow ; legs whitish-green on the tibia and to a little below 
the knee ; rest of the tarsus blackish-green, with a reddish tinge 
on the toes, which are greenish below. 
In summer dress, the whole head, which is crested, neck, and 
breast, rich golden-buff, except the chin, and a narrow median 
line on the neck ; dorsal plumes of the same hue, very filamentose 
and decomposed, about eight or nine inches long ; elongated 
feathers of the breast white at base, yellow at tip; the rest of the 
plumage pure white. 
In non-breeding dress the plumage is entirely white ; the bill 
yellow in place of orange, and the orbitar skin yellow. 
The Cattle Heron is common throughout the district. In its 
breeding habits it resembles the other members of the family, but 
occasionally a colony of them may be found breeding alone or in 
company with the Pond Heron. Their eggs may be distinguished 
from those of all other herons by their excessive paleness. 
Genus, Ardeola, Bote. 
Bill moderately long, straight, pointed ; tarsus short, stout ; feet 
moderately large ; tibia feathered nearly to the knee ; neck short, 
densely feathered ; the feathers long and lax ; toes long ; dorsal 
plumes in the breeding season hair-like, dark 3 wing white. 
Ardeola grayi, Sykes. 
930.—A. leucoptera, Bodd.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 
751; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 23; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 434 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of 
see 272; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 156. 
THE Ponp HERON. 
Andhe bagla, Hin. 
Length, 18:5; expanse, 28; wing, 85; tail, 3; tarsus, 24; 
bill at front, 2:5. 
