AVES ARDEID^. 375 



"The locust visited our part of the country in November, arriving on 

 the 23d. A day or two after some Storks arrived, but only three or four. 

 I saw one at Sta. Ana on the 29th. Riding from Porongos on the 22d 

 December, I saw two and another on the wing. About the middle of 

 March I again saw one at Sta. Elena, and on various occasions in that 

 month, April, and May I met with them. When the bird is on the wing 

 the neck is outstretched and deflected. On rising, this Stork puts its head 

 down very low and takes two or three long bounding hops before it gets 

 on the wing. Legs and feet blood-red ; bill lead-grey." (O. V. Alpin, 

 on Birds Uruguay, Ibis, p. 199, 1894.) 



Suborder Arde^. 

 Sharpe, Classif Bds. p. 75 (1891); id. Hand-list Eds. I. p. 193 (1899). 



Family Ardeid^. 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 56 (1898); id. Hand-List I. p. 

 193 (1899). 



Genus ARDEA Linnaeus. 



Type. 



Ardea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 283 (1766); Sharpe, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVI. p. 66 (1898); id. Hand-List 

 I. p. 194 (1899) A. cinerea. 



7>^//w/, Reichnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. xvi (1852) . . A. sumatrana. 



Ardeomega, Bonap. Consp. II. p. 109 (1855). . . A. goliath. 



Atidubonia, Bonap. Consp. II. p. 113 (1855). . . A. occidentalis. 



Megerodias, Heine, J. f. O. i860, p. 200 . . .A. goliath. 



Geographical Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. 



Ardea cocci Linnaeus. 



The Blew Heron, Albin Nat. Hist. B. III. p. 74, pi. 79 (1740)- 



Le Heron hupe de Cayenne, Briss. Orn. V. p 400 (1760). 



Ardea cocoi, Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 237 (1766); Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. 



Part III. p. 76 (1844 : Bay of St. Joseph, Patagonia : Str. Magellan); 



id. Gen. B. III. p. 555 (1847); Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 22 (1847); Des 



