122 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



some thirty -seven recorded from maritime counties, chiefly in south. 

 Formerly bred East Anglia, Sussex, Middlesex, Pembroke, and 

 elsewhere. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Very seldom visiting Scandinavia and 

 north Russia, but south of 56 north lat. breeding locally in suit- 

 able localities (still nesting in Holland, but apparently no longer in 

 France), south as far as Spain, Hungary, Dalmatia, the basin of 

 Lower Danube and south Russia ; apparently also resident in parts 

 of north and east Africa, west and central Asia and India. In winter 

 in tropical Africa and India. Represented by allied forms in east 

 Asia, tropical Africa, and Australia. 



EGATHEUS FALCINELLUS* 



259. Egatheus falcinellus falcinellus (L.) THE GLOSSY 

 IBIS. 



TANTALUS FALCINELLUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. xii, i, p. 241 (1766 



" Habitat in Austria, Italia."). 



Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, iv, p. 231 ; Saunders, p. 391. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Autumn-visitor, very rare in spring. 

 Occurs almost every autumn (Aug. -Nov.) somewhere, but most 

 frequently on south or east (as far north as Yorks.) coasts of England. 

 Very rare inland and north of Bristol Channel on west side and north 

 of Yorks. on east side. In Scotland some twenty recorded besides 

 flock of about twenty Orkneys, Sept. 1907. In Ireland over forty 

 recorded in autumn and more than half from south maritime 

 counties. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Occasional visitor to Iceland, the Faeroes, 

 Scandinavia, Denmark, and the Baltic provinces, but nesting in valley 

 of Danube, in south Russia, and in west Europe only in the Camargue, 

 Andalucia, Balearic Isles and Sicily, east to central Asia and India, 

 and in Africa and the south-eastern United States of America. 

 Northern birds are migratory, wintering in tropical and southern 

 Africa, tropical Asia and casually even Australia. Replaced by a 

 closely-allied form in America from south Oregon, Arizona, Texas, 

 and Florida to Chile and Patagonia. 



ARDEA CINEREA 



260. Ardea cinerea L. THE COMMON HERON. 



ARDEA CINEREA Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 143 (1758 Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Ardea cinerea Linnseus, Yarrell, iv, p. 162 ; Saunders, p. 367. 



* cf. Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 499. The name Egatheus has one year's priority 

 over Plegadis. E.H. 



