ABDEA. 317 



Sah. Derby, N. W. Australia, Port Darwin: and Port Essington, 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, 

 Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 

 New South Wales, South Coast New Guinea. [Ramsay.) 



Family ARDEIDJE. 



Genus AEDEA, Linnceus. 



ARDEA SUMATRANA, Baffles. 

 (Ardea rectirostris, Gould.) 

 Grreat-biUed Heron. 

 Gould, Handlh. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., sp. 546, p. 296. 



" The nest of this species found by Gilbert on Cobourg 

 Peninsula was built in an upright fork of a large and lofty 

 Melaleuca at about eighty feet from the ground, and was formed 

 of an outer layer of very strong sticks, with a few small twigs as 

 a lining, and contained two eggs of a light ash-grey." (Gould, 

 Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 296.) 



Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Rockingham Bay, Port 

 Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales. [Ramsay.) 



ARDEA PACIFICA, Latliam. 



Pacific Heron. 



Gould, Handlh. Bds. Ami., Vol. ii., sp. 547, p. 297. 322Z: 0,. 



This fine Heron was observed by Mr. K. H. Bennett breeding 

 in company with Platihis flavipes, on trees in swamps, in the 

 Lachlan district, the nest is composed of sticks laid crossways 

 over some horizontal fork or flat portion of a thick bough, it is a 

 scanty structiire, through which the eggs, four for a sitting can 

 be seen. They are of a beautiful pale blue, average specimens 



