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No. 201 — $ . Length, 24.5 inches. Wings, from tip to 

 tip, 3 feet 4^ inches ; from tip of the bill to the end of the toes, 

 2 feet 6 inches. (27/0/86). 



Evelash, yellowish white; orbital space and lores, bluish 

 lead colour, tinged in front of the eve with mealy yellow; bill 

 — upper mandible, very dark brown; lower mandible, dark 

 brown at the tip and along the cutting edge to the base; sides 

 of lower for two-thirds from the base, whitish horn, shading 

 into the brown of the special third; the skin between the forks 

 of the lower mandible, yellowish white; end of gap, yellow; 

 legs and feet, yellow, with a greenish shade, some of the scales 

 on the lower part of the tarsus and on the top of the middle 

 toe, greenish brown. 



No. 210— $ . Length, 24 inches (30/6/86). 



Irides, dull yellow tinge; orbital space and eyelash, 

 greenish yellow; lores, ead colour, slightly tinged with yellow 

 posteriorly; bill — upper mandible, black, becoming lighter at 

 the base on the cutting edge; lower mandible, dark brown on 

 th apical third, which colour continues along the cutting edge 

 to the base, remainder of lower mandible, whitish horn colour; 

 legs and feet, dull yellow, with a greenish tinge; some of the 

 scales on the lower part of the tarsus in front and on top of 

 the middle toe, olive brown. 



No. 350— 9. Length, 23.3 inches (31/7/06). 



82. Myola pacipica. White-necked Heron. 



Ardca pacifica (Latham). Index Ornith. Suppl,, p. LXV., 

 1801, New South Wales. 



No. 156— $ . Length, 31.8 inches (20/6/86). 



Irides, light yellow; bare space round the eye, green; 

 lores, black, with a triangular-shaped mark of green at the 

 base of the upper mandible; bill, black, yellowish white on 

 the under part of the lower mandible. 



No. 321—$. (15/9/86). Irides, light greenish yellow; 

 legs and feet, black. 



No. 386— $ . Length, 31 inches (8/8/86). 



83. Nycticorax caledoxicus australasiae. Night Heron. 



Ardca australasiae (Vieillot). Tab!. Encv. Meth. Ornith., 

 Vol. III., p. 1,130, 1823. New South Wales. 



