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ARDEA GARZETTA. 473 
5292. One.—Lake Fetzara, about 12 June, 1857. From 
Captain Loche, through Mr. Tristram. 
Given to us by Mr, Tristram, the history being the same as that of the 
preceding. | 
5293. Zwo.—Lake Fetzara, 1857. From Captain Loche, 
through Mr. Salvin. 
Procured at the same time as the preceding. My brother wrote that 
Mr. Salvin, who obtained ten specimens, had full confidence in them. 
Mr. Salvin’s note as subsequently transmitted is :— ; 
“These ten eggs I obtained from Capt. Loche, in Algiers, who took them 
himself in Lake Fetzara near Bona in the spring of 1857. He also found 
breeding there the Ardea veranyt [A. ibis], but there was a considerable 
interval between the times of the two species laying their eggs; and they 
occupied places quite separate from each other. In the general characters of 
the eggs of the two species, the egg of A. garzetta is longer and larger, and 
appears never to present the rounded shape so common in the eggs of 
A, veranyi; but this difference is not to be taken as a specific distinction. On 
the 14th of March I shot one of these birds on the Lake of Bizerta near the 
city, but it was said to be more numerous near a place called Teendja at the 
south-western extremity of the Lake. I was in the habit of seeing six of these 
birds in the marsh of Zana. Their quick, active, and almost Rail-like move- 
ments render them by no means difficult to distinguish from the slow and 
deliberate motions of the Buff-backed Herons. On the 22nd of June I shot 
one, a female; it presented every appearance of having hatched its young— 
the moulting was considerably advanced, and the eggs in the ovary small. 
This goes to confirm the statement of Captain Loche as to the respective dates 
of breeding of this bird and A. veranyi, which latter species, I have strong 
reason to believe, had not laid its eggs at Zanaeven at the advanced date of my 
shooting the A. garzetta.”’ | 
[§ 5294. Three.—Utovo-blato, Dalmatia, 2 June, 1902. 
“HH. E. D.” From Mr. Dresser. 
Marked as being from the same nest, and taken as above by Mr. Dresser, who 
described the locality in ‘The Field’ newspaper for 7 March, 1903 (p. 398) :— 
“We paddled some distance up a small, rather swift, river, the Krupa, which 
flows into the Narenta, and soon reached the marsh, or, rather, a lake covered 
with a rank growth of rushes and flags, with here and there a small island 
covered with flowering shrubs and plants, and the large open pieces of water 
were covered with white and yellow water-lilies. This, the Utovo-blato, is 
about nine or ten miles long and very broad, full of springs, so that the water 
was as clear as crystal. The boatmen had already located the breeding colony, 
which was at the end of the Utovo-blato, at a place called Deromski-lug, but 
