Birds of Celebes: Ai-deidae. 



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I. Garzetta nigripes (1) Sharpe, op. cit. 122 (syn. emend.). 



"Tomeo", Gorontalo, Joest a 8. 



"Condor putih", Tjamba and Maros, Platen d 6. 



-Baroa adioa" [also the name of Biibulcus commaridus], Kabruang, Talaut, Nat. Coll. 



"Bahoa mawira", Great Sangi, Nat. Coll. 



For further synonymy and references of. Salvador! S (excluding Ardea nigrirostris J. E. Gray); 



Stejneger i 1. 

 Figures and descriptions. Naumann a 11; Dresser a VI; Hume 4; Legge 6; Salvador! 8; 



Gates 10; Vorderman 11; Sharpe k 1, 11; etc., etc. 

 Breeding plumago. Entirely white; the feathers of the back greatly lengthened, overreaching 



the tail by about 25 mm, the webs decomposed into long thi-ead-like rami, the shafts 



curving upwards at the distal ends; an occipital crest of two lanceolate feathers 



about 120 mm long; feathers of jugulum lanceolate, very narrow, about 100 mm long; 



"iris light yellow; feet [and legs] black; bill black": Platen d 6 (ad., Minahassa: 



Faber — Nr. 3549). 



According to Legge the bill in summer is entirely black. The .specimen 



described has a little yellowish at the base of the lower bill, as in that of Prof. 



W. Blasius (d 6), but noticeably less than in our other Celebesian specimens, which are 



not in breeding pliunage, or only partly so. Prof. W. Blasius (d 7) regards the 



perfectly black bill as a chai'acter of the male. 

 Winter plumage. The elongated jugular feathers and the occipital lanceolate pair wanting; 



the dorsal train wanting, or only the worn remains of it present; basal half of lower 



bill yellowish (Lake Tondano, Aug.— Sept. 1892: Nat. Coll. — C 10969). 

 Immature. Like the adult in winter; bill smaller (Kabruang, 5. XI. 93: Nat. Coll. — C 13011). 

 Nestling. Covered with white down (Legge 6). 



Eggs. 



Nest. 



3 or 4; moderately smooth in texture; pale sea-green; some rather pointed at both 

 ends; size 40.6 — 47 X 31.7 — 35 mm (Legge 6, Hume 15). 

 Of sticks, in the branches of trees growing in swampy country. 

 Distribution. The southern countries of Europe, a rare straggler in the northern and central 

 portions, but ranging far south in Africa, found right across Asia [not including 

 Siberia], down to the East India Archipelago and Austraha (Dresser a VI). — 

 For exact localities in the Indo-Australian area cf. Salvador! 8, 16; adding 

 some Philippine Islands (Steere a 10, Bourns & Worcester 21), Singapore 

 (Kelham 9), Talaut and Sangi Is. (Nat. Coll.), Burmah (Gates 10), Tenasserim (Dav. 4), 

 Ceram (Riedel h 1), Keeling Is. (H. O. Forbes d 3""). — In the Celebesian area: 

 Minahassa (Meyer d 3, Faber, Nat. ColL), Gorontalo Distr. (Forsten a 3, 

 V. Rosenberg a 7, f 1, etc.), Togian (Meyer d 3), Tjamba and Maros (Platen d 6); 

 Great Sangi (Platen d 7, Nat. Coll.); Talaut Is. — Kabruang (Nat. Coll. 20). 



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