ARDEA SPECIOSA. 



Ord. V"'' Les Echassiers, Cuvier. S^" Famille, Les Cultirostres. 



Ord. XIII"?^ Grallatores, Temminck. 



Ord. IV. Grall^, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. W. Grallatores, lUiger. Fam 30, Herodii. 



ARDEA, Linn. Briss. Lath. Cuv. Temm. ^c. 



Char. gen. — Rostrum capite longius, crassum, rectum, compressum, elongato- 

 conicum, acuminatum, acutum, mandibulis subsequalibus, maxilla utrinque 

 sulco, antrorsum evanescente, exarata, culmine basi subdistincto, in apieem 

 sensim deflexo. Tomia ssepius subtilissime oblique incisula, maxillaria pone 

 apieem emarginata. Nares prope basin in sulco laterali sitas, lineares, longitudi- 

 nales, superne postice membrana tectee. Lingua mediocris, oblonga, plana, 

 acuta, membranacea. Lora cum orbitis implumia. Alts tuberculatse. Pedes 

 grallarii, elongati, congrui, tetradactyli, colligati, digitis omnibus angusto- 

 lomatinis. Hallux digitum medium dimidium vel sequans, vel superans, cum 

 digito interno basi connexus, incumbens. Ungues : falcul^ falcatae, medius 

 acie interna pectinatim incisula. Tarsus digito medio paulo longior. Acro- 

 tarsia clypeata, clypeis superioribus scutuliformibus, rarius scutulata. Acrodac- 

 tyla scutulata. Illiger. 



Ardea cristata alba, dorso nigro, collo supremo flavescente antice pectoreque rufis, 

 rostro basi albente. 



SleMo ireng, of the Javanese. 



Ardea speciosa, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 



Vol. XIII. p. 189. 

 Ardea malaccensis, Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel. 1, p, 643. 

 Ardea senegalensis, Linn. Syst. Ed. Gmel. 1, p. 645. 



Crabier blanc et brun de Make, Buff. Hist. Nat. des. Ois. FIL p. 391.— PI. Enl 911. 

 Petit Heron roux du Senegal, PI. Enl. 315. 



