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 Manilla Night-Heron. 



Nycticorax Manillensis, Vigors, Proc. Comm. of Sci. and Corr. Zool. Soc. 1830-1, p. 98. 



Of the habits of this species nothing is known, and as far as we at present are aware it is 

 entirely confined to the Philippine Islands. 



Habitat, Manilla, Philippine Islands, presented by Hamilton Lindsay, Esq., Corr. Memb. 

 Specimens were also contained in the Cumingian Collection. 



The crown of the head and a line down the back of the neck, black ; the sides of the neck, 

 the back, the wings, tail, and the thighs, reddish chesnut, the front of the neck paler ; the under 

 surface, white ; the occipital crest-feathers are white with black tips ; the bill is black ; the legs 

 are reddish. 



Total length, twenty-eight inches. 



