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Genus HERODIAS, Boie. 

 Herodias alba (Linn.). 



Ardea alba, Thien. Fortpflanz. yes. Vog. tab. Ixix. fig. 3 (1845-54) ; 



Heivitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 274, pi. 75. fig. i (1846) ; 



Layard, Ann'. 8f May. N. H. 2nd ser. xiv. p. Ill (1854) ; Dresser, 



Birds Eur. vi. p. 231 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 477, pi. 38 



(1884) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 61, pi. 17. fig. 8 (1896). 

 Egretta alba, Baedeker, Eier Enr. Vb'y. tab. 60. fig. 4 (1855-63) : Newton, 



P. Z. S. 1861, p. 398, pi. xxxix. fig. 6. 

 Herodias alba, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1138 (1880) ; Oaf.es ed. Hume, 



Nests # Eygs 'ind. B. iii. p. 237 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxvi. p. 90 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 195 (1899). 



The eggs of tbe Great White Egret vary extremely in size, those 

 taken in Europe being much larger than those taken in India. The 

 former measure from 2-35 to 2*7 in length, and from 1'7 to 1*77 in 

 breadth. The latter vary from 1-88 to 2-38 in length, and from 1-4 

 to 1-6 in breadth. 



3. Bulgaria, 12th May. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Servia, 22nd May. Seebohm Coll. 



4. Astrakhan, 24th July. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. N.W. Provinces, India, 20th June Hume Coll. 



( W. E. Brooks). 



1. N.W. Provinces, llth July ( W. E. Hume Coll. 



B.). 



3. Etawah, N.W. Prov., 16th Aug. Hume Coll. 



(A. O. Hume). 



4. Utchulda, July ( W. E. Brooks : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.}. 



3. Futtehgurh (A. Anderson). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Allahabad. Hume Coll. 



5. Allahabad, 20th July. Hume Coll. 

 7. Jhansi, 7th Aug. (F. JR. Blewitt). Hume Coll. 



2. Ceylon (E. L. Laijard). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



2. Ceylon. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 

 1. Trincomalee, Ceylon, 30th Jan. Crowley Bequest. 



( W. V. Legge). 



Herodias egretta ( Wilson). 



Ardea egretta, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixix. fig. 4 (1845-54) : 



Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 156 ; Scott, Auk, vi. p. 17 (1889) ; Scl. $ Huds. 



Argent. Orn. ii. p. 98 (1889) ; James, New List Chilian Birds, p. 8 



(1892) ; Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 340. 

 Herodias egretta, Baird, Brewer $ Ridgiv. Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 23 



(1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 95 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 195 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mm. Paulista, iv. p. 274 (1900). 



The eggs of the American Egret measure from 2 to 2*45 in length, 

 anil from 1-5 to 1'62 in breadth. 



3. Florida (Henshaw Coll.). Sal vin-Godman Coll. 



3, Panasofkee Lake, Florida, 13th Princeton University, N.J. [E.]. 

 March (W. E. D. Scott). 



