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plate, Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 38) called the Indian bird leucoptera, Bodd., and that 
of the Malayan peninsula and Sumatra malaccensis, Gm. 
Heropias, Boir. 
171. Heropias nicripes (Temm.), Man. d’Orn. 2nd edit. part iv. p. 376, “L?Archipel 
des Indes” (1840); Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardew, p. 14, “ Lac de Gorontalo, 
Celebes.” 
Not possessing a sufficient number of examples of H. garzetta (Linn.) and its allies 
to attempt an elucidation of its races, their habitats, and synonymy, I have followed 
Temminck, and given to the Celebean bird the title by which the Dutch zoologist 
distinguished the little Egret of India, of the Malay archipelago, and of New Guinea, 
from the European, North Asiatic, and Japanese bird. Professor Schlegel (J. c.) does 
not admit their specific distinction, and includes all under A. garzetta, Linn. To him 
we owe the important fact that Temminck founded his A. nigripes on examples from 
Java, Borneo, and Celebes now in the Leyden Museum. We are thus provided with a 
clue to the maze of confusion into which Prince Bonaparte (Consp. ii.) has thrown the 
synonymy of the White Egrets (conf. Schlegel, op. cit. p. 19). 
172. Heropias EGrerra (Gm.), Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 629 (1788), ex Buff. Hist. Nat. 
Ois. vii. p. 377, “ America;” Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardea, p. 17. 
Hab. Gorontalo (Forsten). 
I adopt Professor Schlegel’s determination with reserve, its correctness depending on 
the identity of the Asiatic with the American bird. The Celebean example is probably 
the H. alba (L.), ap. Jerd. (Birds of India), =A. modesta, Gray & Hardw., A. alba 
vera being restricted by Professor Schlegel to Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and 
Western Asia. The history of the Egrets has yet to be written. 
Arperta, G. R. Gray. 
173. ARpET?A sINENSIS (Gm.), Syst. Nat. ed. 13, i. p. 642 (1788), ex Lath., “ China.” 
Ardea melanoptera, Cuvier, Mus. Paris. Puch.; Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 575. 
melanophis, Cuy., ap. Less. Tr. p. 573, errore. 
lepida, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 190, “ Java.” 
--— melanotis, Cuv., ap. G. R. Gray, Genera, ili. Append. p. 25, errore. 
Hab. Menado (mus. nostr.); all India (Jerdon); Java (Horsf.); Ceylon, Arracan 
(Blyth); China, from Canton to Tientsin, Formosa, in summer (Swinhoe); Borneo, 
Philippines (Mus. Lugd.); Ladrone or Marian Isles (?) (@. R. Gray). 
I cannot concur with Mr. Blyth nor with Dr. Jerdon in regarding Ardea nebulosa, 
Horsf. (/. c.), as belonging to this species. Horsfield’s diagnosis applies far better to 
Ardetta cinnamomea (Gm.). The expression “cauda remigibusque badiis” appears to 
me conclusive. 
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