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pale bluish-white colour as those of A. sinensis. They measure 

 from 1-2 to 1'27 in length, and from -92 to 1-02 in breadth. 



1. North America (Smiths. Inst.}. 

 7. North America (Henshaw Coll.}. 



3. "VViimebago, Illinois (J. W. Tolman : 

 Tristram Coll.}. 



2. Winnebago, Illinois (J. W. Tolman: 



Smiths. Inst.). 

 2. Wisconsin ( T. Kumlien : Tristram 



Coll.). 



3. Clearwater, Florida, 20th April 



( W. E. D. Scott). 

 3. Dueiias, Guatemala, 1st June. 



Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Princeton University, N.J. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ardetta involucris ( V.}. 

 (Plate Y. fig. 4.) 



Ardetta involucris, Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 159 ; Scl. Sf Huds. Argent. Orn. 

 ii. p. 101 (1889) ; Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 205 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xxvi. p. 235 (1898) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 203 (1899) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 232 (1899) ; von Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iv. 

 p. 257 (1900). 



The eggs of the South- American Little Bittern are of a greenish- 

 yellow colour, and measure from 1-45 to 1/3 in length, and from 

 95 to 1 in breadth. 



5. Argentine Republic. 



A. II. Holland, Esq. [P.]. 



Ardetta cinnamomea (Gm.). 



Ardea cinnamomea, Thien. Fortpflanz.ges. Vog. tab. Ixx. fig. 2 (1845-54). 



Ardeiralla cinnamomea, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1162 (1880). 



Ardetta cinnamomea, Oates ed. Hume, Nests of* Eggs 2nd. B. iii. p. 252 



(1890); La Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 489; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 



xxvi. p. 236 (1898) ; id. Hand-l \. p. 203 (1899). 



The eggs of the Chestnut Little Bittern are white, a few specimens 

 being tinged with very faint blue. They measure from 1*2 to 1-42. 

 in length, and from 1 to 1/1 in breadth. 



Loyah Bridge, Etawah, N.W.P., 

 24th Aug. ( W. E. Brooks) 



Belg-aum, 5th Aug. (E. A. Butler}. 



Calcutta, 7th Aug. (A. O. Hume). 



Dibrugarh, Assam, 4th July (J. JR. 

 Cripps). 



Tippera, June (V. Irwiii). 



Tippera, 30th May ( V. I.). 



Akyab, Burma, 30th June (E. R. 

 Shopland). 



Pegu, 20th June (E. W. Gates). 



Pegu, oth July (E. W. O.). 



Pegu, 20th July (E. W. O.}. 



Pegu, 30th July (E. W. O.). 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Gates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 





