ARDETTA. 



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The eggs of the Little Bittern are white, and some have a faint 

 gloss. They measure from 1'22 to 1-55 in length, and from *98 to 

 1*1 in breadth. 



7. Hungary. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Holland. Gould Coll. 



4. Holland. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Mark Brandenberg. Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Seine Infe'rieure, France, 20th June Seebohm Coll. 



(Hargitt Coll.). 



2. Volga. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Zana, Algeria, May (H. B. Tris- Seebohm Coll. 



tram), 



4. Zana, 10th June (O. Salvin). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 4. Zana, 23rd June (O. 6'.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Zana, 24th June (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Zana, 25th June (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 3. Eastern Narra, Sind (S. Doig}. Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 3rd June (S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Kashmir, 12th June. Hume Coll. 



Ardetta sinensis (Gm.). 



Ardea sineusis, Tliien. Fortpflanz. yes. Vog. tab. Ixx. fig. 3 (1845-54). 

 Ardetta siuensis, Sicinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 65 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1156 



(1880) ; -Gates ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 255 (1890) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. p. 227 (1898) ; id. Hand-l i. p. 202 



(1899) ; Xehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 232 (1899). 



The eggs of the Little Yellow Bittern are of an exceedingly pale 

 bluish-white colour, rather paler than those of Bubulcus coromandus. 

 They measure from I'll to 1'37 in length, and from '89 to '96 in 

 breadth. 



18. Eastern Narra, Sind (S. Doig). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 1st July (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



3. Eastern Narra, 2nd July (S.D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Eastern Narra, 3rd July (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



4. Eastern Narra, 26th July (S.D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, 20th Aug. (E. W. Oates). Gates Coll. 



3. Amoy, China (R. Swinhoe). Seebohm Coll. 



1 . Ruk Island, Carolines, 23rd May Crowley Bequest. 



(Rothschild Mus.}. 

 1. Ruk Island, 22nd June (Roth- Crowley Bequest. 



tschild Mus.}. 



Ardetta exilis (Gm.). 

 (Plate V. fig. 3.) 



Ardetta exilis, Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 528 (1874); Baird, Brewer # 

 Ridgw: Water Birds N. Am. i. p. 72 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xxvi. p. 231 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 202 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat 

 Eiersamml. p. 232 (1899). 



Botaurus exilis, Scott, Auk, vi. p. 16 (1889). 



The eggs of the American Little Bittern are of exactly the same 



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