vou. x1.} BUFF-BACKED HERON IN NORFOLK. 147 
The “ powder-down puffs”? were four in number, one 
on each flank and one on each side of the breast. It 
proved to be a ¢ on dissection, and careful measure- 
ments taken by me at the time gave: Length, 520°5 mm. 
(20°5 inches); wing, 248mm. (9°75 inches); culmen, 
56mm. (22 inches); tarsus, 82mm. (3°25 inches). 
Mr. E. C. Saunders gives the colour of the soft parts as 
follows: Beak, chrome yellow, with a brownish tinge 
at the base and tip of the upper mandible ; eyes, golden 

BUFF-BACKED HERON (Ardeola i. ibis). 
¢@. Shot on Breylon Marshes, Norfolk, October 23rd, 1917. 
(Photo. by A. W. Yallop, Great Yarmouth.) 
yellow, skin round eyes a duller yellow inclined to grey, 
edge golden yellow; legs and feet brown-black, tibio- 
tarsal joints and soles greenish cast, toe-nails black. 
I believe this bird to be only the second authentic 
occurrence of the Buff-backed Heron in Great Britain : 
the first being the immature female from near Kingsbridge 
(Devon), shot towards the end of October, 1805 (Yarrell, 
IV., p. 187; Saunders, p. 375), as I do not look upon 
the evidence for the bird said to have been shot at 
Martock (Somerset), January 28th, 1909, reported by 
Mr. Stanley Lewis (Zool., 1915, p. 318; cf. British 
Birds, Vol. X., p. 70) as being satisfactory. 
