344 CLASS AVES. 



brown colour ; upper parts of body, rusty colour ; 

 below, whitish. N. America.* 



Zig-zag Bittern^ Lath. A. Undulata, Gm. Enl. 

 763. 



Bill, brown; plumage yellowish, or rufous-grey, 

 crossed with narrow streaks of black-brown. Cay- 

 enne. -f* 



Philipplne Heron. A. Philippensis, Gm. Enl. 898. 



Bill, greenish-yellow ; head and upper neck, rufous- 

 brown ; white underneath. Philippine Isles. 



Ardea Brasiliensis, Lath., Azara, n. 354 ; the Soco, 

 Margrave ; Ardea Soco, Wagler. 



Greenish-ash, speckled with fulvous ; head and neck, 

 copper-red, black waved ; chest and beneath, ash. 



Ardea Leuconotus, Wagler. 



Like Ard. Nycticorax ; cheek, grey ; eyebrows, spot 

 under eye, and base of back, white ; neck and beneath, 

 pale ferruginous ; belly, white streaked ; wings, ash ; 

 back and scapulars, black. Senegal. 



Ardea Cyanura, Vieil. Ardea Scapularis, Illiger. 

 Ardea Javanica, Horsf. Ardea Ccsrulea, ? Gmel., 

 the Ardeola of Marcg ; when young, Ardea Fusci- 

 collis, Vieil., from Azara, n. 357- South America, 

 Africa, and India. 



Ash crested ; front of head, white, red-streaked ; wing- 



* The Ardea Mokoko, Vieill. 



•f Ardea Radiolata, Wagler. See Brisson, v. t. 37, f. 2. Temm. thinks 

 this is the young of the former. 



