278 Mr. W. U. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



sides of the neck suffused with dark brownish-buff inclining 

 to vinaceous on the breast and to snuff-brown on the sides of 

 the heaid and bfelly ; some of the long feathers on the sides 

 of the breast have grey tips. The bird agrees perfectly with 

 typical examples of B. stagnatilis from North Australia. 



The specimen figured and described as Butorides stagnatilis 

 by Mr. Mathews [c/. Birds Austr.iii. p. 466, pi. 194 (1914)] 

 is evidently not of that species, but appears to be typical 

 B. javanica Horsi. or possibly B.j. amurensis Schrenck, if 

 the latter is really separable as a subspecies from B. javanica 

 (type from Java), which I greatly doubt. In any case, the 

 supposed larger size of the bill does not seem to afford a 

 distinctive character. 



Tigrisoma heliosylus. 



Zonerodivs heliosylus (Lesson) ; Sharpe, Cat. xxvi. p. 192 

 (1898); van Oort, p. 55 (1909). 



a-d. ^ ? . Parimau, Mimika River, 15th Sept.-16th Dec. 

 1910. [Nos. 198, 274, 680, 748, C. H. B. G.'] 



e,f. S • Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 2nd Oct. 1912 & 

 15th March, 1913. [ C. B. K.] 



g, A. ^ . Canoe Camp, Setakwa River^ 25th Nov. 1912 & 

 5th March, 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



Male. Iris yellow ; orbital skin^ lores, cheeks, and chin-spot 

 sulphur-yellow ; bill pale slate-colour, culmen and tip black ; 

 feet lemon-yellow, front of the tarsus dusky. 



Female. Iris yellow ; orbital skin and lores greenish- 

 yellow ; upper mandible black, cutting-edge and lower 

 mandible greenish-pearl, base of the lower mandible grass- 

 green ; legs greenish-lemon. 



Males usually have the bands on the upperparts wider and 

 more rufous in colour than the females; the bands, too, on 

 the middle tail-feathers are wider. 



" This Tiger-Bittern was occasionally seen, sometimes in 

 pairs, sometimes singly, on the streams and swamp-waters 

 in the depths of the jungle. On being disturbed it would 

 leave some sheltered position under the overhanging brush-5 

 wood or shrubs at the edge of the \y?d,Q\\"- — C. H. B. G. 



