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BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



ernargiuation of the first primary are noticeable, aud an 

 examination of a large series might prove the Australian and 

 New Zealand races to be distinct from our Indian and 

 Burmese one. 



Although we have not yet obtained the species in 

 Burmah, I take this opportunity of also putting on record the 

 dimensions of several specimens of the medium sized White 

 Heron which we identify as intermedia of v. Has., apud 

 Wagler. The more so that I have reasons for suspecting that 

 besides this species, of which I shall subjoin dimensions, there 

 exists another rather differently proportioned species to which 

 I desire to call the attention of observers in India. 



The following are dimensions of the species that I believe 

 to be intermedia : — 



927.— Herodias garzetta, Lin. (6.) 



Thatone ; Pahpoon ; Amherst ; Tavoy. 



Pretty common throughout the plains portion of the province' 

 I enter the Tenasserim specimens of the lesser White Heron 

 as garzetta, because they are identical, with specimens from 

 various parts of India, which we always call garzetta, but 

 whether they are really identical or not with the European 

 bird I am not in a position to decide.* 



Here, again, I shall contrast the dimensions given by Schle- 

 gel for what he considers the European and Asiatic races of 

 this species, with dimensions of birds from various parts of 

 India, Burmah, the Andamans and Malay Peninsula : — 



* Our birds should perhaps stands as H. nigripes, Tern, Man. d'Ora., 2nd Edc, III., 

 377, 1840, with immaculata, Gould, B. Austr. VI. pi. 58, ? nee. Bp., and melanopus, 

 Gould, nee Wagler as synonymes. But the synonymy of these White Herons can 

 only be worked out in the Museums of Europe. 



