486 BRITISH BIRDS. 



ARDEA COMATA. 



SQUACCO HERON. 



(PLATE 38.) 



Ardea botaurus minor, 



Ardea cancrofagus, U . ^ Q) , n y< 47 4?2 



Ardea cancrofagus rufus naevms, 



Ardea cancrofagus luteus, J 



Ardea ralloides, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 88 (1769). 



Ardea castanea, Gmel. Reise Russl, i. p. 165 (1770). 



Ardea marsigli, ) 



Ardea pumila, I Le P eckin > Nov - Comm - P^trop. xiv. p. 502 (1770). 



Ardea comata, Pall. Heise Russ. Rcichs, ii. p. 715 (1773) ; et auctorum pluri- 

 moruin Temminck, Naumann, {Bonaparte), Bechstein, Vieillot, Keyserling 8f 

 Blasius, Tristram, Lord Lilford, Schleyel, E. Newton, Wright, Sclater, (Irby\ 

 Homeyer, Goebel, Reichenoiv, Finsch fy Hartlaub, Heuglin, Layard, &c. 



Ardea squaiotta, ) 



Ardea erythropus, ( Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pp. 634, 645 (1788). 



Ardea senegalensis, ) 



Ardea griseo-alba, Hose, Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, i. no. 59 (1792). 



Ardea audax, Lapey rouse, Nene schtved. Abh. iii. p. 106 (1794). 



Ardea botaurulus, Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. p. 221 (1798). 



Ardea deaurata, Men'. Ersch < Grub. Encycl. v. p. 173 (1820). 



Ardeola ralloides (Scop.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 559. 



Cancrophagus ralloides (Scop.), Kaup, Nat. Syst. p. 42 (1829). 



Buphus comatus (Pall.'), \ , r ,.. _, , 7 , e Q 



n -j /o t t Brehm. Vog. Deutschl. pp. 588, 589 (1831). 

 Buphus ralloides (Scop.), \ 



Nycticorax ralloides (Scop.), Hempr. 8f Ehr. Symb. Phys. Aces, fol. m (1833). 

 Egretta comata (Pall.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 354 (1837). 

 Botaurus comatus {Pall), Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 125 (1842). 



The Squacco Heron must be regarded as a very rare straggler to the 

 British Islands, principally on spring migration. It was first recorded as 

 a British bird by Latham, who mentions one example obtained at Boynton, 

 in Wiltshire, in 1775 (Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 302), and a second at 

 Ormsby Broad, in Norfolk, in 1820 or 1822 (Gen. Hist. B. ix. p. 110). 

 It does not appear to have been noticed again until 1831, from which date 

 until 1867 twenty- two examples occurred, most of which were obtained 

 in the counties on the south coast of England and in Norfolk and Suffolk; 

 one example, however, was obtained in Nottinghamshire, one in Durham, 

 one in Cumberland, and one in Ireland. During the last seventeen years 

 there does not appear to have been any record of its occurrence in England, 



