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shorter than the culmen. The head is crested ; scapulars and inter- 

 scapulars elongate and lanceolate, not disintegrated. Eectrices 12, 

 Six species are known, with a wide range in Asia, Africa, and 

 America ; only one occurs in India. 



1567. Butorides javanica. The Little Green Heron. 



Ardea javanica, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 190 (1821) ; Sykes, 

 P. Z. S. 1832, p. 158. 



Egretta chloriceps vel virescens, Hodys. in Grays Zoof. Misc. p. 8(3 

 (1844), descr. nulla. 



Butorides javanica, Blyth, Cat. p. 281 ; Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 752 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 173 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix. pt. 2 r 

 p. 274 ; xlv, pt. 2, p. 85 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 254 ; 

 Ball, ibid. p. 290 ; id. S. F. i, p. 88 ; Hume, N. 8f E. p. 620; id. 

 S. F. i, p. 256 ; Adam, ibid. p. 399 ; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 321 ; 

 Hume, S. F. ii, p. 310 ; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 24 ; Fairbank, ibid. 

 p. 268 ; Bourdillon, ibid. p. 405 ; Hume, ibid. p. 467 ; Anders. 

 Yunnan Exped,, Aves, p. 689 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, p. 483 ; 

 Butler, S. F. vii, pp. 189, 191 ; Ball, ibid. p. 230 ; Cripps, ibid. 

 p. 308 j Hume, Cat. no. 931 ; id. S. F. viii, p. 410 ; Legge, Birds 

 Ceyl. p. 1153 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 90 ; Butler, ibid. p. 434 ; David- 

 son, S. F. x, p. 324 ; Damson, ibid. p. 416 ; Reid, ibid. p. 453 ; 

 Oates, B. B. ii, p. 254 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 382 ; Hume, S. F. 

 xi, p. 334 ; Oates in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 249 ; Barnes, 

 Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, p. 146 ; Sharps, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 177. 



Butorides spodiogaster (subsp.), Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iii, p. xvii 

 (1894) ; id. Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 182, pi. ii. 



Kancha bag la, H. ; Kana bogla, Beng. ; Ung Fa-o nang, Lepcha j 

 Dosi honga, Tel. ; Doshi koku, Tarn. 



Fig. 95. Head of B. javanica. . 



Coloration, forehead, crown down to the eyes, and long occipital 

 crest black glossed with dark green ; a short black line running 

 back from the lower part of the orbit, area between this and the 

 black cap whitish ; chin, throat, and a streak bordering the lower 

 mandible white ; rest of head arid neck ashy grey except a broken 

 Avhite band more or less streaked with brown down the fore neck ; 

 scapulars and interscapulars glossy bronze-green, the long ends of 

 the feathers ashy grey with whitish shafts ; rump dark grey washed 



