178 AEDEID^. 



Colombia and Peru, is said by Stolzmann to be solitary and difficult to observe, being 

 very shy and flying away at the sight of man ; he found this bird up to an altitude 

 of 5800 feet, and believes that it even ascends higher, if there are suitable fishing- 

 grounds. It frequents the mountain-streams and feeds on small fish, but we have 

 no record of its breeding. 



1. Tigrisoma lineatam. 



V Honors raye de Cayenne, Daubent. PL Enl. viii. t. 860 . 



Ardea lineata, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 52 '. 



Tigrisoma lineatum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 194'; Bangs, Pr. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, ii. p. 15 \ 



Ardea tigrina, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 638 '. 



Tigrisoma tigrinum, Swains. Zool. Joum. iii. p. 362 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 12 '. 



Tigrisoma brasiliense, Cass. Pr. Acad. Philad. 1860, p. 196 '; Lawr. Ann. Lye. X. Y. vii. p. 301 °. 



Supra saturate brunneum, olivaceo adumbratum, plumis singulis medialiter nigro lineatis et nigro regnlariter 

 transfasciatis ; dorso imo efc supracaudalibus viridi-nigris, vix ocbraceo lineatim fasciatis ; tectricibus 

 alarum dorso concoloribus, majoiibus et secnndariis intimis viridescenti-nigris, ochraceo-rufo minute 

 transvermiculatis ; lemigibus nigris, estus schistaceo lavatis, et anguste albo terminatis ; cauda viiides- 

 centi-nigra ; pileo cristato et cello undique saturate castaneis, hujus plumis paucis nigro fasciatis; faciei 

 collique lateribus saturate castaneis ; gula media plumosa rufescente, plaga laterali nuda, fascia alba 

 circumdata ; gutture et praepeotore longitudinaliter albo striatis, plumis dimidiatim albis et castaneis; 

 corpore reliquo subtus griseo ferrugineo lavato ; tibiis, axUlaribus et subalaribus nigris, albo trans- 

 fasciatis : margine alari albo : rostro rufescenti-brunneo, mandibula viridescenti-flava ; facie nuda 

 Tiridescenti-flava ; pedibns viridibus ; iride laete aurea. Long, tota circa 18-5, alte 10-7, caudse 3'9, 

 culm. 3-75, tarsi 3-7. (Descr. avis advilti ex Sarayacu, Ecuador, ilus. nostr.) 



Juv. Eufescenti-ocbraceum, late regulariter nigro transfasciatum : remigibus nigris, ad apieem ocbraceo termi- 

 natis ; dorso imo, supracaudalibus et rectricibus nigris albo transfasciatis ; corpore subtus ocbraseente, 

 abdomine albidiore, gutturis et pectoris plumis nonnuUis nigro maculatis aut fasciatis ; tibiis quoque 

 nigro magis distincte fasciatis ; subalaribus et axillaribus nigris, albo distincte transfasciatis. 



Ilab. Panama (M'Leannan^'^ ^), Lion Hill Station (Brown*). — Colombia, Delta of the 

 Rio Atrato ( Wood ^) ; Ecuador ^ ; Peru ^ ; Amazonia ^ ; Guiana ^ ; Teinidad ^. 



This Tiger-Bittern is widely distributed in South America, and extends its range into 

 the State of Panama. It is easily distinguished from T. cabaniM by the line of feathers 

 down the throat, the latter being bare only on the sides ; the base of the lower 

 mandible is also bare. 



Scarcely any notes have been published on the habits of this species. Leotaud says 

 that it is often to be seen in Trinidad among the rushes covering the marshy portions 

 of the island, as well as in the mangroves on the edge of the swamps. The food is 

 similar to that of the larger Herons, and the birds fish apparently by night, as on 

 every occasion that Leotaud observed them during the day they seemed to be asleep. 



2. Tigrisoma excelleus. 



Tigrisoma excellens, Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 595 ^ ; Riehm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 



p. 527 ' ,- Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 193, note \ 

 ? Tigrisoma, sp., Salvad. & Festa, BoU. Mus. Torino, xiv. no. 339, p. 11 *. 



