The egg is long and oval, of a light bluish-green. Length, '_' inches I line; breadth, I inch 5 



lines. (./. A. Campbell.) 



The whole of the plumage, pure white; bill, beautiful orange: irides, rich Btraw-yellow ; naked 

 space before and behind the eye, fine greenish-yellow ; legs above the knee, pale dull yellow , which colour 

 is continued down the centre of the inner part of the tarsi ; remainder of the tarsi and feet, black. 

 (Ghuld.) 



This Australian ICgret is said to he identical with //. modesta of Asia and Africa, which is very 

 Common in India, and is known throughout the Old World as the Great White Heron. 



Habitats: Derby (N.W.A.), Tort Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 

 Rockingham Ray, Tort Denison, Wide Day District, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South 

 Wales. Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and South-West Australia, New Zealand. (Ramsay.) 



