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spread of wings 32, wing 10-10.50, tail 2.25-2.50, tarsus i. 63-1. 85, 

 culiiien 1. 75-1. 80, its depth at nostrils .68, mid-toe and claw 2.45- 

 2.50. Hab. Guam and Saipan, also probably others of the Mari- 

 anas. Two of the downy young were secured, the general upper 

 coloring of which is brown ; there is a buffy spot on each side of 

 the rump ; the throat, neck and gemeral under coloring is buffy ; 

 a wide and distinct superciliary line of buff ; a black line from the 

 upper mandible through the eye ; there is a splotch of brown at the 

 nape and another on the sides of the head below the ear ; upper 

 mandible black, lower yellowish ; feet brownish. 



Sub-family FUlvIGULIN^.— Sea Ducks. 



Genus FUI/IGUI/A Stephens. 



15. Fuligula fuligula Linn. Tufted Duck. 



General color black, abdomen white ; tail feathers normal, not 

 particularly stiff ; head with crest; speculum white. Wing 8, tail 

 2.5, culmen 1.75, tarsus 1.12. General color of young and females 

 brown. Hab. Palseardlic regions from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; 

 winters in China, Japan and India : accidental in Polynesia. 



Order HEKODIOXES.-Herons, Storks, Bitterns, Etc. 



a'. Bill sharp-pointed and nearly straight, inner side of middle 

 toe-nail pedtinate, loral space bare, powder-down tracts present. 

 Family Ardcidee, Herons. 



b'. Tail feathers 10, bill with serrations, slightly notched. 

 C'. IvCngth about 21, yellowish band down sides of 

 neck, culmen longer than tarsus. Genus Diipetor. 



C-. Length about 14, tibio-tarsus feathered to heel. 

 Genus Ardetta. 



b-. Tail feathers 12 or more, bill without serrations, and 

 usually with a distinct notch, culmen longer than tarsus, length 

 about 22. Genus Deviiegretta. 



Genus DUPETOR Heine & Reichenbach. 

 16. Dupetor flavicollis Lath. Yellow-necked Bittern. 



Aidca flavicoUn, I.atli., Ind. Orn., 1790. II., p. 701. 



Ardea picala, Raffl., Trans. Linn. Soc, XIII., p. 326. 



Ardca bilineata, Cuv., Mus. Pari.s. 



Aidciralla flavicollis, Salva., Ucc. Born., 1S74, p. 353 ; Oates, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. B. 



iggo, III., p. 251. 

 D7(pelor flavicollis, Heiu. & Reichen., Noniencl. Mus. Hein., iSgo (Sumatra), p. 30S ; Sharp, B. 



B. O., Club, XXXI., p. 31 ; /(/., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., XXVI., p. 247. 



Only one specimen of this large bittern was seen. This was 

 shot near the Agafia riyer June ii, 1900, and proved to be a full 



