476 ARDEA COROMANDA.—A. ALBA. 
ARDEA COROMANDA (Boddaert). 
§ 5304. One.—India. From Mr. Gould, 1859. 
Given to me in March 1859 by Mr. Gould, having been sent 
to him, he tells me, by his son in India. 
[§ 5305. One.—Ceylon. From Mr. Layard, through Dr. Frere, 
1854. 
For Mr, Layard’s account of his visit to a nesting-place of this and other 
birds, between ‘Tangalla and Matura, in Ceylon—when he most likely took 
this egg—see ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ (ser. 2, xiv. 
pp: 111, 112).] 
ARDEA ALBA, Linneus, 
GREAT EGRET. 
[§ 5306. One.—White Morass, Banat, Hungary, 23 June, 
1847. From Dr. Baldamus, 1861. 
P. Z. S. 1861, pp. 398, 399, pl. xxxix. fig. 6. 
In the acount of his bird-nesting journey in Hungary in 1847, published 
by the Doctor in ‘ Naumannia’ for 1851 and 1852, he described the “ Weisse 
Morast ” (I. Hft. 2, pp. 73 et seg.) and its Heronries, and especially (Heft 4, 
pp. 41-44) that occupied by Ardea alba. Writing to me, 20 April, 1861, he 
says further :—“ Ardea alba have I myself, at the risk of life and with 
unspeakable exertion, obtained out of an almost impenetrable reed-thicket in 
the White Morass in Southern Hungary, ard occupied the whole of a hot day 
in taking twelve eggs—the only genuine ones I ever saw. They were hard 
sat on, and in many nests were young in snow-white down, which the young 
while in the egg, some of which I put in spirit, also shewed. I have since 
given away seven specimens; but some fifty have been sent into the world 
with my private mark, so that I had to publish a warning on that account in 
‘Naumannia’ (I. Heft 4, p. 48, nota). I am glad that you have so im- 
mediately recognized their difference from (those of) A. cinerea. All earlier 
and later collectors in Hungary have let themselves be imposed upon by 
Wallachs and Illyrians, as they also tried it on with me, so as not to have to 
go with me to the hard-to-reach breeding-place in the midst of very great, high 
reed-forests, only to be penetrated by quite small canoes (Schinakels). Nor 
