690 AVES. 



Ardea sfagnalis, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 25,1849; Cass., U. S. Expl. Exp., p. %i)7 , 

 1858 ; Gray, List, B. Trop. Isl., Pacific Oceai],p. 49, 1859 ; Pelz., Voy., Novara, Vog., p. 124, 

 1865. 



Ardea macrorhjncla, Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, App. p. 25, 1849; Schl., Mus. P.-B. Ardece,'^. 44, 

 1863. 



Bidorides jai:anica,'B\y th, Cat. B., Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 281, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. ii, 

 p. 130, 1857 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 752, 1862; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 420 ; Gould, 

 Handb., B. Austr., vol. ii, p. 316, 1865; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxxix, 

 p. 274, 1870; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1871, p. 413; Holdsw., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1872, 

 p. 478; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 85; Hume, t. c, pp. 256, 450 ; Adam., i(. c, p. 399 ; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, pp. 310, 483; Ball, i. c, p. 435; Hume, Stray Feathers, 

 1875, p. 191 ; id.. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., p. 620, 1873; Salvad., Ucc Born., p. 351, 1874; 

 Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., p. 160, 1875 ; Butler, 

 Stray Feathers, 1876, pp. 24, 35 ; t. c, Fairbank, p. 263; Hume, t. c, p. 405; id., p. 467; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1876, p. 52; Tweedale, op. cit., 1877, p. 323; Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc, 

 vol. viii, p. 100, 1874; id., ojo. cit., ix, p. 237, 1875. 



Ardea scapularis, Schl., Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 116, 1850. 



Ardetta thalassina, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl., p. 133, 1852. 



Herodias javanica, Licht., Nomencl. Av., p. 89, 1854. 



Butorides chloriceps, Bonap., Consp. Av., t. ii, p. 129, 1857. 



Butorides patruelis, Bonap., t. c, p. 130. 



Bntorides staynatllis, Bonap., t. c, p. 130. 



Butorides tnacrorht/ncJia, Bonap., t. c, p. 131, 1857 ; Gould, Handb., B. Austr., p. 317, 1865. 



Ardea [Butorides) virescens, var. scapularis, Schrenk, Reis. Amurl. Vog., p. 437, 1859. 



Ardeola patruelis, Schmeltz., Cat. Godeffr., t. iii, p. 3. 



BiUer aides javanicits, Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 85; Hume, Stray 

 Feathers, 1877, p. 47. 



a. t Sawady, 30th January 1875. 



b. 5 Bhamo, 4th March 1875. 



Common about Bham6. 



Genus Ntcticorax, Stepliens. 

 215. Nycticorax geiseus, Linn. 



Ardea grisea, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 239, 1766. 



Ardea nycticorax, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 235, 1766 ; Lath., Ind. Orn., ii, p. 678, 1790 ; Wils., 

 Amer. Orn., vii, p. 101, pL Ixi, fig. 2, 1813; Temm., Man. d'Orn., p. 577, 1820; Wag!., 

 Syst. Av., sp. 31, 1827 ; Menetr., Cat. Rais. Zool. Caueas., p. 50, 1832 ; Naum., Yogel., t. 225, 

 1838; Demid. Voy., Bd. iii, p. 262, 1840; Yarrell, Brit. B., vol. ii, p. 485, 1843 ; Sundev., 

 Svensk. FogL, pi. Ixxv, fig. 4, 1856 ; Schleg., Vog. Nederl., pL 103, 1858; Linderm., Vog., 

 Griechenl., p. 153, 1860. 



Le Bihoreaux, Buff., PI. Enl., t. viii, pis. 758, 759, 1783 ; Briss. Orn., t. v, p. 493, 1790 ; Stephens, 

 Gen. Zool., vol. xi, p. 609, pi. xlvii, 1819. 



Nycticorax europaus, Selby, 111. Orn., ii, p. 39, 1833; Gould, B. Eur., vol.iv, pi. 279, 1837. 



A^cdztforaa' ^-flrf/fitti, Bonap., Comp. List., B. Eur. & N. Amer., p. 48, 1838; Macgill., Brit. B., 

 vol. iv, p. 433, 1852. 



Nycticorax grisens. Gray, Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 557, 1847 ; Blyth, Cat. B., Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 

 281, 1849; Brehm, Naum., 1855, p. 2!r0; Bonap. Consp., t. ii,p. 140, 1857 ; Jaub. & Lapomm., 

 Rich. Orn., p. 366, 1859 ; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, p. 758, 1863 ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger., t. 

 ii, p. 143, 1867; Doderl., Avif. Sicil., p. 217, 1869; David, N. Arch. Mus., t. vii. Bull., 



