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and is sini[)ly a few dry sticks put together. The two eggs are a 

 very pale blue, and qnickly fade/^ 



Mr. Quelch (Timehri (2) y. p. 106) observed this species at 

 Georgetown, and remarks: — "In the Botanic Gardens, and on 

 the out^^kirts of the town, in the neighbourhood of water, the 

 small blue-grey and brown Herons {Ardea ci/anura) are always to 

 be met with. These are commonly known as Chow (ow as in 

 how), on account of their cry, though the term Shypook is just as 

 commonly applied to them." 



Mr. Beebe (Our Search for a Wilderness, p. 355) gives the 

 followino- note : — " From almost every bush along the river bank 

 little Guiana Green Herons flew up from their nests, built close 

 to the surface of the water. These herons * froze ' like Bitterns 

 when they aliohted, standincr motionless with the bills at an ancrle 

 of 45°. Along the railroad thev were semi-domesticated, flvinof 

 fearlessly in and out of the coolie yards, and snatching bits of food 

 from the very doorways of the huts." 



- Genus TIGRISOMA Swains. 



Tigrisoma Swainson. Zool. .Jom-n. iii. p. 362, 1S27. Tvpe T. lineatum 

 (Bodd.). 



In this genus the front aspect of the tarsus is hexagonally scalet), 

 the inner toe is exceeded in length by the outer one, the claws are 

 strongly curved, the neck-feathers are loose and fluffy, the malar 

 reoion is naked, and the tail consists of twelve feathers. 



111. Tigrisoma lineatum. 

 Tiger Bittern. 



Tigrisoma lineatum (Bodd.). Tab). PL Enl. p. 52, 1783 (Cayenne) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. pp. 194, 2Sl, 1S9S (Merume 



Mts.) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wildemess, p. 281, 1910 (Aremu). 

 Tigrisoma tigriuum Cab. in Schomb. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 7o3, 184S ; 



Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 47, 1S7G (Cartoonie). 

 Tigrisoma hrasiliense (Linn.), Cab. in Sclionib. Keis. Guian. iii. p. 574, 



1S4S; Salvia, Ibis, 1886, p. 170 (Merume Mts., Camacusa). 



"Tiger-bird" (Broicny 



Adult male. Head and entire neck bright chestnut, duller on 

 the throat and fore-neck where a portion of the featliers are v, Into 

 lined with black, there are also some l)lafk sjiols to the featln'rs 

 on the hind-neck ; back, wings, and t;iii blackish tinged with 



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