384 ARDEID&. 
always four in number, are broad ovals, pointed at both ends, 
and are nearly white in color. 
They measure 1°7 by 1:22. 
Ardetta cinnamomea, Gm. 
933.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 755; Butler, Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 434; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 274. 
THE CHESNUT BITTERN. 
Lal Bagla, Hin. 
Length, 16; expanse, 22; wing, 6; tail, 1°75; tarsus, 2; 
bill at front, 2. 
Bill yellow ; culmen dusky; cere yellow ; irides yellow ; legs 
greenish yellow, with yellow soles. 
Above, fine chesnut color, with a tinge of cinereous on the 
crown ; beneath fulvous, whitish on the throat, and with a 
pectoral gorget of feathers, dark brown in the centre; thigh- 
coverts cinnamomeus ; lower surface of the wings dull ashy. 
The young bird has the plumage streaked, the feathers being 
reddish-brown in the centre with pale yellowish margins. 
The Chesnut Bittern occurs both im Sind and in the Deccan. 
I have not heard of its occurrence in Guzerat, but most probably 
it will be found to occur there. 
It is probably only a seasonal visitant. 
Ardetta sinensis, Gm. 
934.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. Il, p. 755; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 216; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p.434; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p* 274. 
THE YELLOW BITTERN. 
Length, 14 to 15; wing, 5°25; tail, 1°75; tarsus, 1°75 ; bill at 
front, 225. 
Bill pale yellow ; culmen brownish; irides yellow; legs and 
feet pale green. ; 
Adult, top of head black; back of neck cinnamon rufous ; 
face, sides of neck and breast pale fulvous yellow, white on the 
chin; back and scapulars pale earthy or sandy brown; wing- 
coverts and tertiaries pale isabelline-fulvous, the latter verging 
to pale brownish ; quills and tail black ; sides of the breast deep 
brown, edged with pale yellow, passing to white on the vent 
and under tail-coverts ; back of neck and -rest of lower plumage 
yellowish-white, passing to white 
The young bird has the upper plumage more or less cinna- 
mon-brown, mixed with pale fulvous, and some of the occipital 
feathers blackish brown. 
The Yellow Bittern is not very common in Sind; it occurs 
also in Guzerat, but is rare in the Deccan. Captain Butler 
found it breeding at Milana, about 18 miles east of Deesa, The 
