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ARDEA IBIS. A475 
communities—at Lake Halloula this year probably for the last time, as the 
French Government has begun to drain this paradise of Herons, employing 
vast numbers of soldiers, and in the middle of June last the waters were 
already reduced by seven feet. It is remarkable that though there are trees 
and rising ground on the north of the lake, yet none of these birds frequent 
that side, the favourite haunts of the various Salicaria, but all remain on the 
south side, sheltered in a pestilential morass by a jungle of reeds, and all 
deposit their eggs on nests heaped on the ground. The Buff-backed Heron 
felols 
builds a little further back from the water in general than the Squacco, but 
neither of them elevate their nests more than two feet from the swamp.” 
§ 5298. Mour—tlLake Fetzara, Algeria, 1857. From Captain 
Loche, through Mr. Salvin. 
Mr. Salvin said that Captain Loche kept them in separate boxes 
and said that this species bred in a different locality [from Ardea 
garzetta (§ 5290)] near the great Lake Fetzara. 
§ 5299. Zwo.—Lake Fetzara, June, 1857. From Mr. 
Simpson. 
[ Apparently obtained at the same time as the last from Capt. Loche. ] 
[§ 5300. Four.—Lake Halloula, 12-15 June, 1856. From 
Mr. Tristram. | i 
[§ 53801. Zwo.—Lake Halloula, 13 June, 1856. “H. B. T.” 
From Mr. Sealy,.1893. 
Apparently received direct by Mr. Sealy from Mr. Tristram.] 
[§ 53802. Zwo.—Lake Halloula, 1856. From Mr. Sealy, 1893. 
Bought by Mr. Sealy at Mr. Tristram’s sale in 1857, being lots 107 and 
109. ] 
[§ 5303. Two.—Lake Fetzara, June, 1857. From Captain 
Loche, through Mr, Salvin. 
With the same origin as the six before included (§§ 5298, 5299). ] 
