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day before. It is a female of very small size. Head, neck, 

 rump, tail, primaries aud sides of body are pale brown, 

 back and wingcoverts whitish brown, breast and vent 

 white. Iris grey, bill light brown-grey, naked skin yellow, 

 feet light brown, nails brown-grey. Total length about 730, 

 wing 320, tail 150, bill 63 mm. 



We received further 13 specimens, young and adult ones, 

 but no specimens in breeding plumage. 



16. Phalacrocorax graculus (L.). [Gekuifde schollevaar]. 



Our Museum received a young female, shot 7 October 

 1905 near the island of Texel, and an adult male with 

 fully developed crest, killed on the seashore between den 

 Helder and Callantsoog, 1 May 1908. 



We have still another specimen of this bird killed in 

 Holland, viz.: a young female captured 25 February 1860 

 near Rotterdam (Schlegel, Cat. Pelecani, Graculus cris- 

 tatus, n°. 6). 



Ardeidae. 



17. Ardea cinerea L. [Blauwe reiger]. 



We received 14 examples in different ages. The Museum 

 possesses an adult male in which one of the lengthened 

 occipital plumes is white instead of black (Schlegel, Cat. 

 Ardeae, Ardea cinerea, n°. 1, figured by Schlegel, Vogels van 

 Nederland, 1854—58, pi. 186). 



18. Ardea purpurea L. [Purperreiger]. 



The Museum purchased only three examples, viz. : 

 young (ƒ, 5 September 1905, de Kaag, Zuid-Holland; 

 adult (ƒ, 11 May 1906, Bennebroek, Noord-Holland ; 

 young cT, 31 July 1906, de Kaag. 



19. Herodias alba (L.). [Groote zilverreiger]. 



We possess only one specimen, a female, shot 2 February 

 1855 near Zutphen (Coll. van Wickevoort Crommelin, 

 213—1). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



