52 ARDEID^!. 



Length. 50 inches; tail 6; wing 18-5 ; tarsus 7; bill at front 6*5 

 (Hume) ; irides bright yellow ; facial skin dirty green ; upper mandible horny 

 black ; lower one whitish horny, yellowish towards the tip. 



Hah, Southern Tenasserim from Mergui to Bankasoon, Recorded also 

 from Arracan. 



1344. Ardea insigtris (Hodgson), Jerd., B. Ind. ni. p. 740; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 160 ; id., Sr. F. vi. p. 471. Ardea fusca, 

 Blyth, J. A. S. B. xviii. p. 73. The DUSKY GREY HERON. 



General plumage dusky cinereous, with a crest of a few narrow ashy 

 feathers, the longest about 7-8 inches ; quills and tail dark slaty ; sides of 

 the nead and neck slightly tinged with rufous ; elongated breast plumes fine 

 silvery grey, edged with dusky at the base ; rest of lower parts mingled ashy 

 and rufous ; scapulars elongated, lanceolate and tipped with silvery grey. Bill 

 dusky above, yellow at the gape and bottom of lower mandible ; feet dark 

 greenish grey. 



Length. 46 inches ; wing 19; tail 6*5 ; bill at front 7 ; tarsus 7 ; standing 

 height about 42 inches; hind toe and claw 4-5 inches. 



Hab. N.-E. Bengal, the Sikkim Terai, Assam, and Arracan, extending to 

 Malayana. 



1345. Ardea cinerea, Linn., Syst. Nat. \. p. 235 ; Naum, Vogt. 



t. 220; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 274; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 741 ; Hume, Sir. F. 

 i. p. 253; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, fyc., Sind, p. 226; Hume, Nests and Eggs 

 Jnd. B. p. 610; Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 217, pi.; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. 

 p. 245. The COMMON HERON. 



Ardea cinerea. 



