HEEODIAS. 687 



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

 Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 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. ciL, 1874, 

 p. 303 ; id., p. 483 ; Ball, t. c, p. 434 ; Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 148 ; . Dumford, t. c, p. 390 ; 

 Legge, 0/3. OTi!., 1875, p. 403; Danford & Brown, t. cit., p. 424; Hume, Stray Feathers, 

 1875, p. 190; Butler, ojo. c^■i!., 1876, p. 23; Fairbank, t. c, p. 263 ; Schalow, Journ. fiir 

 Ornith., 1876, p. 17 ; B. du Bocage, t. c, p. 303 ; Barret, Ibis, 1876, p. 210; Dresser, t. c, 

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

 46 ; Gates, ;;. 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, GmeUn, 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. 



Fiirple 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 pharaonica, Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 113, 1856. 



Ardea (PyrrherodiaJ 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. Herodias intermedia, Wagler. 



Jf(/(?a ?«i!emerfw, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659; Pelz., Reis. 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 plumif era, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1847, p. 221. 

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

 Herodias intermedia, 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 ; 



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



