472 ARDEA GARZETTA. 
ARDEA GARZETTA, Linneus. 
LITTLE EGRET. 
§ 5288. Zwo.— Athenes.” From M. Parzudaki, 1856. 
M. Parzudaki told me they were obtained by a medical student 
or doctor friend of his at Athens, whence he had them direct. 
§ 5289. Two.— Algeria.” From M. Parzudaki, 1858. 
These are said to be from Algeria, while the last [$ 5288] were 
said to be from Greece, and yet one has the same number, “ 330,” 
written in a different manner. 
§ 5290. Four —Lake Fetzara, near Bona. From Captain 
Loche, through Messrs. Salvin and Simpson, 1857. 
These from Captain Loche, who said he took the eggs every year. 
Mr. Salvin shot ove of the birds at Zana [§ 5293, and Ibis, 1859, 
p- 358], a long way down the country, from which he thought that 
they were much earlier breeders than Ardea russata; and this 
Captain Loche confirmed. None of Mr. Tristram’s party found 
A. garzetta breeding. Captain Loche produced these eggs from a 
different box or drawer from that in which he kept the Buff-backed 
Herons’, and these seem to be rather larger and whiter than those 
of the other. Tie birds bred on the far side of Lake Fetzara. 
(Dr. Buvry gives at some length (Journ. fiir Orn. 1857, pp. 120-135) his 
recollections of Lake Fetzaia and its birds, but he does not seem to have seen 
this species there. | 
§ 5291. Zwo.—Lake Fetzara, about 13 June, 1857. From 
Captain Loche, through Mr. Tristram, 1858. 
‘These are out of two dozen obtained by Mr. Tristram from Captain 
Loche, who took them from different nests about the 13th of June, 
1857, when they were slightly sat on. One formed Lot 183 at 
Mr. Stevens’s rooms, 9 February, 1858. 
