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ARDEIDE. 



(UlALLATORES. 



AUDEID/E. 



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THE BUFF-BACKED HERON. (Adult.) 



THE LITTLE WHITE HERON. (YoUllg.) 



Ardea aquinoctialis, Red-billeil Heron, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 25. 



,, Little White Heron, Mont. Suppl. to Ornith. Diet. 



,, „ ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 20. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 97. 



russata. Buff-backed Heron, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 24. 



„ ,, „ Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 188. 



,, Riifous-backed Egret, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xx. 



,, Heron aigrette dor£e, Temm. Man.d'Ornith. pt. iv. p. 377. 



The first, and as far as I am aware, the only notice of 

 the occurrence of this rare bird in England was communi- 



