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Ardea Candida, Briss. Orn. v. p. 428 (1760, partim). 



Ardea alba, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 239 (1766). 



Ardea egrettoides, S. G. Gmel. Reise d. Russl. ii. p. 193, pi. 25 (1774). 



he Heron blanc, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 365 (1780). 



Ardea egretta, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 41 (1793, nee Gmel.). 



Herodias egretta, Boie, lsis, 1822, p. 559 (nee Gmel.). 



Lepterodatis flavirostris, Ehr. Symb. Phys. Aves, fol. m (1829). 



Herodias Candida, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 584 (1831). 



Herodias egretta, C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 585 (1831, nee Gm.). 



Ardea modesta, Gray & Hardvv. 111. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 49 (1834). 



Egretta alba (L.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 47(1838). 



Egretta orientalis, Bp. ut supra (1838). 



Erodius albus (L.), Macg. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 134 (1842). 



Erodius victories, Macg. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 131 (1842). 



Herodias syrmatophorus, Gould, B. of Australia, vi. pi. 56 (1848). 



Egretta nigrirostris, Macg. Hist. B. B. iv. p. 460 (1852). 



Herodias lateifii, A. E. Brehm, J. f. Orn. 1854, p. 80. 



% Herodias brevirostris, A. E. Brehm, ut supra. 



Herodias alba (Linn.), Hartl. J. f. Orn. 1854, p. 157. 



Ardea melanorhyncha, Wagler, fide Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 117 (1857). 



Egretta modesta (Gray), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Egretta syrmatophora (Gould), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Egretta melanorhyncha (Wagl.), Bp. ut supra (1857). 



Egretta rueppelli, Bp., fide Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 409 (1872). 



"Herodias torra, Buch. Hamilt.," Hume, Stray Feathers, vi. p. 472 (1878). 



Htron aigrette, French; Airone bianco maggiore, Italian; Silber-Reiher, Schnee-Eeiher, 



German; de groote Zilverreiger, Dutch; Hvit Hager, Swedish; Bela'ia Tschapoura, 



Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 886 ; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 25 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 42. 



fig. 5 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 222 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 276 ; id. B. of G Brit. 



iv. p. 22; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 190. 



<S ad. ptil. (Est. candidus: nuchse plumis elongatis, plumis in jugulo imo elongatis et lanceolatis, plumis in 

 dorso imo longissimis, decompositis, filainentosis : rostro nigro : loris et orbitis nudis flavo-viridibus : 

 iride flava, : pedibus fuscis, tibiis nudis pallidioribus. 



