464 ARDEID.F,. 



M. Tcmminck says tliat the BufF-backcd Heron visits the 

 mouths of the Danube, where an adult specimen has been 

 killed ; a young bird lias been killed in the Crimea ; it is 

 said also to be found in Turkey and in Dalmatia. M. Ho- 

 henacker met with it in the Caucasian country. M. Tem- 

 minck says it is common in India; in proof of which there are 

 many instances, Mr. Gould mentions that it is plentiful in 

 the Himalaya, and in Nepaul. Major Franklin includes it in 

 the birds found in the mountain chain of Upper Hindoostan, 

 and on the banks of the Ganges, where it is called the 

 Cahoga Heron, the term Cahoga being a corruption of the 

 Indian term Gao-huga^ the Cow or Cattle Heron, in allusion 

 to its being frequently seen amongst cattle. Colonel Sykes 

 also includes it in his Birds of the Dukhun, where, he says, it 

 is called Batty Bird by the Europeans, that it attends oxen 

 while grazing, and picks insects from them. It is also Le 

 Crabier ch la cote de Coromandel of Buffon, PI. Enl. 910, 

 one of the very few figures of this species. M. Temminck 

 says it is found in Japan. Dr. Horsfield includes it among 

 his Birds of Java, under the name of Ardea affinis, and M. 

 Temminck adds that it is found at Sunda and its islands. 



Beyond what has been already stated, the habits, food, and 

 nidification, are unknown. 



M. Temminck"'s description of the adult bird is as follows : 

 The head, occiput, cheeks, neck, and breast, orange colour, 

 but the base of each feather is "white ; the orange-coloured 

 ends formed of the loose imconnected filaments of the web ; 

 from the middle of the back another patch of feathers, the 

 filaments of which are sufficiently elongated to reach beyond 

 the ends of the closed wings ; these feathers, as also those of 

 the occiput, and others hanging from the bottom of the neck 

 in front, are of a brilliant orange colour ; all the rest of the 

 plumage is of a shining white ; the lore and irides are of a 

 fine yellow colour, but the naked skin does not encircle the 



