130 HERON. 



107— CLOUDED HERON. 



Ardea nebulosa, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 190. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Plumage above clouded with 

 ferruginous chestnut, and dusky yellow, banded transversely ; 

 beneath pale chestnut, paler on the neck, and marked with longi- 

 tudinal streaks of brown ; crown of the head dusky ; quills and 

 tail bay. 



Inhabits Java. 



108.— WHITE-THROATED HERON. 



Ardea Javanica, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 190. 32C. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Head crested; plumage blue; the 

 crown, wings, and tail, deep olive, with a gilded gloss; quills black 

 at the end ; back feathers very long and narrow, variegated with 

 grey and gold ; the base of the lower mandible is white, from thence 

 to the anterior margin of the eye a spot of black; throat pure white; 

 and the fore part of the neck and breast have a cast of dusky white; 

 coverts of the wings attenuated to a point, with a narrow white 

 border; legs reddish brown. 



Inhabits Java ; known by the name of Upi-upian. — Sir T. S. 

 Raffles describes it as fifteen inches long; greenish brown above, 

 bluish grey below ; head feathers dark olive-green, and elongated 

 into a pendent crest ; neck short ; bill dusky and yellow ; lore green ; 

 legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Sumatra, there called Burong Puchong. 



