HERODIAS. 687 



Aubin. & Salvad., Viagg. Bog-OS., p. 147, 1871; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iii, p. 27, 1871; 

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. See, 1871, p. 411; Salvad., Faun. Ital., p. 241, 1872; Shelley, B. 

 Egypt, p. 266, 1872 ; Gould, Gt. Brit., vol. iv, pi. xxi, 1873; Severtzoff, Turkest. Jevotn., 

 1873, p. 68 ; Heugl., Orn. N. O. Afr., p. 1051, clxxxiv, 1873 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. 

 B.,1873, p. 611; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 86; Hume, t. c, p. 253 ; id., op. cit., 1874, 

 p. 303; id., p. 483 ; BaU, t. c, p. 434 ; Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 148; Durnford, t. c, p. 390; 

 Legge, ojo. ci7., 1875, p. 403; Danford & Brown, t. cit., p. 424; Hume, Stray Feathers, 

 1875, p. 190; Butler, Oj».a?5., 1876, p. 23; Fairbank, t. c, p. 263 ; Schalow, Journ. fiir 

 Ornith., 1876, p. 17; B. duBocage, if.c., p. 303; Barret, Ibis, 1876, p. 2 1 ; Dresser, t. c, 

 p. 325; Sharpe, t. c, p. 24; Tweedale, t. c, p. 323; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 

 46; Gates, t.c, p. 167; Irby, B. G. P., p. 182, 1875; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, 

 Bengal, vol. xliv, ex. No., p. 159, 1875. 



Ardea rufa, Scop. Ann., t. i, p. 87, 1768 ; Gmel., Syst. Nat., p. 642, 1788. 



Ardea variegata, Scop. Ann., t. i,p. 88, 1768. 



Ardea caspia, Gmelin, Reis. d. Russld. Bd. ii, p. 193, pi. xxiv, 1774; Brehm, Vogelf., p. 293, 1855. 



African Heron, Lath. Suppl., p. 237. 



Greater Bittern, Lath., Gen. Synopsis, vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 58, 1785. 



Crested Purple Heron, id., t. c, p. 95. 



Purple Heron, id., t. c, p. 96. 



Rufous Heron, id., t. c, p. 99. 



Ardea purpurea, Gm., Syst. Nat., p. 641, 1788. 



Ardea botaurus, id., t. c, p. 636. 



Ardea monticola, Vieill., N. Diet., xiv, p. 416, 1817. 



Ardea purpurea, var. manillensis, Meyer, Acta Acad. Caes.-Leop. Carol., Bd. xvi, p. 102, 1834. 



Ardea purpurescens, Brehm, Vogelf., p. 293, 1855. 



Ardea pJiaraonica, Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 113, 1856. 



Ardea (Pyrrherodia) purpurea, Finsch. & Hartl., Vog. Ostafr.,p. 67, 1870. 



a. $ Sawady, 25th June 1875. 



b. c. Bhamo, 15th February 1868. 



Distributed over Upper Burma, but not numerous. 



Genus Herodias, Boie. 

 210. Heeodias intermedia, Wagler. 



JfJefl M!5eme^««, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659; Pelz., Beis. Novara, Vog., p. 118, 1865; Finsch, 



& Hartl., Vog. Ostafr., p. 686, 1870 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. iii, p. 28, 1871 ; Hume, Nests and 



Eggs, Ind. B., p. 615, 1873. 

 Ardea melanopus, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659. 

 Ardea putea, Frankl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1830, p. 124. 

 Ardea nigrirostris. Gray & Hardw., 111. Ind. Orn. Zool., ii, pi. xlix, fig. 2, 1834; Gray, Gen. B., 



vol. iii, p. 555, 1847. 

 Ardea egrettoides, Temm., Man. d'Orn., t. iv, p. 374, 1840 ; Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 555, 1847 ; 



Temm. & Schl., Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 115, pi. Ixix, 1850. 

 Herodias plumifera, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1847, p. 221. 

 Ardea plumif era, Gould, B. Austr., vi, pi. Ivii, 1848. 

 Herodias %nterw£dia, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 279, 1849 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 



1873, p. 233; Adam., t. c, p. 399; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 303 ; Ball, t. c, p. 434; 



Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. ix, p. 237, 1875; Blyth & Walden, B. Burm., p. 159, 1875 ; 



Gates, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 190; Butler, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 23. 



