ARDEA ATRICOLLIS.— Female. 



AvEs.— Plate LXXXVI. 



Capite, crista, cerviceque superne viridi-nigris ; gula. guttureque summo albis ; gutture infimo albo nigro- 

 striato ; interscapuliis nigro-purpureis viride nitentibus ; pectore ventreque flavo-cinereis ; tarsis 

 pedibusque viridi-nifrris ; mandibulii superiore antice purpureo brunnea ; spatio mido circa oculos 

 flavo ; mandibula inferiore antice brunneei, postice flava. 



LoNGiTUDo e rostri apice ad basin cauJse 35 uuc. ; caudos 7 unc. 



AsDEA Atricollis, Waglcr, Syst. Avium, pars prima. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, the nape, the crest 

 feathers, and the sides and back of the neck deep black glossed with green, 

 the latter, particularly towards the interscapulars, lightest and faintly tinted 

 with grey. Interscapulars deep blackish purple, with a greenish gloss ; the 

 back rusty pearl-grey. Tail blackish purple, glossed with green. The lesser 

 wing coverts dark pearl-grey, tinged more or less with a rusty yellowish 

 brown ; the outer vanes of the primary and secondary quill coverts pearl- 

 grey, the inner vanes dark lavender-purple, fading towards the quills into 

 white. The outer vanes of the primary quill feathers a deep lavender-purple, 

 the inner vanes blackish purple tinted with brown, which towards the points 

 fades into lavender-purple ; the secondary quill feathers blackish purple 

 glossed with green ; the tertiaries deep lavender-purple ; the scapular 

 feathers deep lavender-purple, glossed with green. The chin, the upper parts 

 of the throat, and the sides of the neck pure white ; the middle of the throat 

 wiiite, longitudinally streaked with black glossed with green ; lower parts of 

 the throat white, sparingly streaked with faint blackish lines ; the long feathers 

 pendent from the front and sides of the neck near to the breast pearl-grey, varie- 

 gated with yellowish grey, and some of them streaked with white. The breast, 

 belly, vent, and under tail coverts intermediate between pearl and yellowish 

 grey, the under tail coverts darkest. Thighs yellowish grey. The naked 



