130 ARDEID^E. 



3. Lake Halloula, Algeria, 14th June Seebohm Coll. 



(H. B. Tristram). 



1. Egypt (E. C. Taylor}. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Lahej, Arabia. * ColonelJ. W. Yerbury \P,\ 



6. Lahej. A. B. Percival, Esq. [O.J 



Bubulcus coromandus (Bodd.). 

 (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Ardea bubulcus, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ('2) xiv. p. Ill (1854). 



Bubulcus coromandus, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1147 (1880); Oates cd. 

 Hume, Nests $ Eggs 2nd. B. iii. p. 247 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bird* 

 B. M. xxvi. p. 217 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 202 (1899). 



The eggs of the Indian Cattle -Egret are, as a rule, rather smaller 

 than those of B. lucidus, but they are otherwise very similar to them. 

 They measure from 1*6 to 1-85 in length, and from 1*22 to 1'4 in 

 breadth. 



3. Sind (E. A. Butler). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Uinballa, Punjab, 1st July. Hume Coll. 



3. Rahun, Etawah, 10th 'Aug. Seebohm Coll. 



(W. E. Brooks). 



1. Rahun, 13th Aug. ( W. E. B.). J , Seebohm Coll. 



6. Etawah, Aug. Hume Coll. 



4. Etawah, 14th Aug. Hume Coll. 



3. Etawah, 16th Aug. Hume Coll. 

 1. Etawah, 25th Aug. Hume Coll. 



1. Etawah ( W. E. Brooks). Seebohm Coll. 



4. Futtegurh (A. A. Anderson). Crowley Bequest. 

 6. Jhansi, July. Hume Coll. 



6. Jhansi, 7th' July (F. R. Blewitt). Hume Coll. 



7. Jhansi, 10th July (F. It. B.). Hume Coll. 

 3. Jhansi, 5th Aug. (F. R. B.). Hume Coll. 

 6. Raipur. Hume Coll. 



21. Sambhur, 30th June (R. M. Adam). Hume Coll. 

 29. Sambhur, 1st July (R. M. A.). Hume Coll. 



2. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 13th Hurae Coll. 



April (Miss Cockburn). 



1. Ceylon (E. L. Layard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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



Genus ARDETTA, Gray. 



Ardetta minuta (Linn.). 



Ardea minuta, TMen. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixx. fig. 1, a, b (1845-54). 

 Ardeola minuta, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 59. fig. 5 (1855-63). 

 Botaurus minutus, Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 315, pi. Ixxxiii. 



tig. i (1856) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 510, pi. 38 (1884) ; id. 



Eggs of Brit Birds, p. 65, pi. 17. fig. 9 (1896). 

 Ardetta minuta, Saloin, Ibis, 1859, p. 358 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1860, p. 77 ; 



Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. 259 (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests $ Fy<;* 



Ind. B. iii. p. 257 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 222 



(1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 202 (1899). 



