340 CLASS AVES. 



the neck yellowish, and a long tuft at the occiput. 

 According to the exact researches of M. Meyer, 

 udrdea Castanea, Gm,, or Halloides, Scopol. A. 

 Squaiotta, A. Marsiglii, A. Pumila, and even A. 

 ^Erythropus, and A. Malaccensis, Gm. Enl. 911, are 

 only varieties or different ages of A. Comata. A, 

 Senegalensis, Enl. 315, is also a young one. It 

 may perhaps be the true crane of the Balearic 

 Islands of Pliny.* 

 Add— 



Snowy Heron, Var. A. Lath. A. Candidissima, 

 Wils. Ixiii. 4. 



Bill, black ; whole plumage, snowy- white, long, matted, 

 hair-like feathers on sides of breast and back. Car- 

 thagena. United States. 



J. Buhulcus, Savjgny. Eg. Ois. pi. viii. is des- 

 cribed by Wagler as the young of Ardea Rus- 

 sata, Tem. 



Violet Stork, Lath. A. Leucocephala, Gm. Enl. 910. 



Bill, dusky ; head and neck, white ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts, same. India. 



A. Jugularis,¥ orster. Gularis, ^osc. Act.de la 

 Soc. d'Hist. Nat. in fol. pi. II., or Albicollis, 

 Vieil. Gal. 253. 



Plumage in general bluish-black, with the excep- 

 tion of the throat, which is white. Senegal. -j- 



* Ardea Botaurulus, Schrank. Ardea Castanea, Ardea Senegalensu, 

 Lath. 



t Ardea Jugularis, Forster, is perhaps distinct; and may be Ard. 

 Ccerulea, B. Lath., and Ard. Martooh, Vieil. 



