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MALACCA HERON. 
Ardea cyanopus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. l. 641. — Lath. Ind. Orn^ 2. 
685. 33. 
Ardea Mexicana cinerea. Briss. Orn. 5.406. 6. 
Le Crabier cendre. Buff. Ois, 7- 401. 
Cinereous Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5.71- 33. 
Described as under by Latham : “ A trifle 
bigger than the last, (the Gardenian Heron) : 
beak two inches and a half long ; blue, with a 
black tip : bare space between the beak and eye 
blue : the head and all the upper parts are pale 
ash-colour : the wing-coverts mixed with black : 
the under parts of the body are white : quills part 
black, part white : legs bluish. Inhabits America.” 
MALACCA HERON. 
(Ardea Malaccensis.) 
Ar. alba, dorso ffusco, collo fusco alhoque striato, rostro pedi“ 
husque Jlavis. 
White Heron, with the back fuscous ; the neck striped with 
brown and white ) the beak and feet yellow. 
Ardea Malaccensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 643. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 6sg. 47. 
Crabier blanc et brun de Malacca. Buff. Ois. 7. 3y4. — Biff. PI. 
Enl. 911. 
Malacca Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 78. 44. 
The Malacca Heron is nineteen inches in length : 
its beak is dusky, with its sides yellowish near the 
