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and vent dark slaty brown; legs, toes, and claws pale brown. 

 Lg. 5,25, wing 2,75. 



Q : Beak dark brown ; crown of head and neck dark brown, 

 tinged with rufous, with very pale indistinct bars near the tips 

 of each feather ; back, scapulars, tertials, and upper wing-coverts 

 dark brown, the centre of each feather blackish, with from four 

 to six withish spots and bars on the outer edges of the webs 

 of each feather; primaries dusky black, with two or three very 

 indistinct whitish spots on the outer web of the first and second 

 quill - feathers ; upper tail - coverts, tail, and lower tail - coverts 

 chestnut - brown , barred with black and white; throat, cheeks, 

 breast, and belly dirty white, tipped with yery pale brown ; sides, 

 flanks, and vent greyish brown, barred and spotted with white; 

 legs, toes, and claws pale brown. Lg. 5,25, wing 2,75. 



Hab.: S. E. Betsileo, Madagascar. 



ABDEIDAE. 



■\- Ardea cyanirostris. 



Cory, Birds of the Bahama Islands. Boston 1880. 



It is closely allied to A. leucogastra leucoprymna of Louisiana, 

 from which it is alleged to differ in the color of the bill, which 

 has the terminal third black and the remainder sky-blue instead 

 of yellow, and in the plumage being somewhat darker. (Nach 

 J. A. Allen, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornith. Club. V. 1880. 

 No. 2, p. 107). 



Hab.: Bahama Islands. 



Ardea Rutenhergi. 



G. Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. pt. I, 1. Juli 1880, p. 39. 



Pileo et nucha cristata nigro aeneis; fascia postoculari 

 rufescenti-fulva, alteraque inferiore latiore et breviore pileo 

 concolori; collo postico et laterali, pectoris lateribus abdomineque 

 medio obscure cinerascentibus, nonnihil fulvo brunnescenti 

 lavatis; mento et gula albidis, maculis nonnuUis rufescentibus 

 longitudinaliter notatis; collo antico superiore in fundo rufescenti- 

 fulvo, maculis obscurioribus irregulariter vario ; inferiore pectore 

 et epigastrio mediis ex aurantiaco fulvescentibus ; abdomine imo, 

 crisso et subcaudalibus eodem colore lavatis; dorso, tergo, uro- 

 pygio scapularibusque (subelongatis et sublanceolatis) nitide 

 aeneo-viridibus, his strictissime et vix conspicue rufescenti mar- 

 ginatis ; alarum tectricibus omnibus aeneo - virescentibus, dilute 

 rufescenti marginatis; remigibus obsolete virescentibus, limbo 

 apicali strictissimo albido; subalaribus albo et rufescenti variis; 

 cauda virescente; pedibus fuscis; maxilla fusco-nigricante, man- 

 dibula flavidopallida, tomiis obscuris. 



Lg. rostr. a. fr. 62 mm., al. 190, tars. 57, dig. med. c. 

 ung. 53. 



Hab.: Mohambo, Northern Madagascar. 



