136 HERON. 



reach six inches beyond the last ; colour of the bill rufous yellow, 

 the edges of the upper mandible serrated, and both of thern bending 

 from each other from the middle to the end ; at which part it 

 resembles a pair of pincers, being broad, and not pointed as in other 

 Herons ; general colour of the plumage white, marked on the top of 

 the head with numerous black lines ; space between the bill and eye 

 and round it, also the throat and chin, bare, and black ; the back for 

 two-thirds black ; quills and tail the same ; legs rufous yellow, or 

 brown ; toes connected by a membrane as far as the first joint. 



Found on the Coast of Coromandel in September, October, and 

 November. 



We have remarked in some drawings, done in India, one with 

 a black bill ; between that and the eye bare, as a lore, but not sur- 

 rounding the eye; head, neck, breast, and under parts, fine pale 

 grey, marked on the two first with numerous whitish spots ; feathers 

 of the breast elongated, and hanging loose ; back, wings, and tail, 

 black, but the wing coverts are fine pale grey ; bill shaped as in the 

 Coromandel Species; legs black. — From the drawings of General 

 Hardwicke. 



In another drawing was one with a similar bill, black at the base, 

 the rest of the length pale grey ; upper mandible red beneath ; both 

 mandibles wrinkled at the base, and the edges of both at the open 

 parts somewhat toothed, or serrated ; between the bill and eye a 

 naked black lore ; head, neck, beginning of the back, and all the 

 wing coverts, pure white ; quills and middle of the back black, the 

 former reaching over the tail, and obscuring it; legs pale flesh- 

 colour. — Inhabits India ; called Goongoola. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



We have retained the above at the end of the Heron Genus, as 

 they seem to have many things in common with it, although in 

 others they differ, particularly in the openness of the bill, though 

 agreeing with that tribe in the nakedness of the lore, and membrane 

 between the toes ; but I do not find notice taken of any serrature on 

 the middle claw. 



