584 



MALACCA HERON* 



Ardea cyanopus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 644. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 2= 

 685. 33. 



Ardea Mexicana cinerea. Briss. Orn. 5.406. 6. 

 Le Crabier cendre. Buff. Ois. 7. 401. 

 Cinereous Heron. LatL Gen, Syn. 5. 71. 33. 



Described as under by Latham : A trifle 

 bigger than the last, (the Gardenian Heron) : 

 beak two inches and a half long ; blue, with a 

 black tip : bare space between the beak and eye 

 blue : the head and all the upper parts are pale 

 ash-colour : the wing-coverts mixed with black : 

 the under parts of the body are white : quills part 

 black, part white : legs bluish. Inhabits America.'* 



MALACCA HERON* 

 (Ardea Malaccensis.) 



As. alba, dor so Jusco, collo Jiisco alboque striato, rostro pedi- 

 bus que Jlams. 



White Heron, with the back fuscous j the neck striped with 



brown and white j the beak and feet yellow. 

 Ardea Malaccensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 643. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2, 6SQ. 47, 



Crabier blanc et brun de Malacca. Bi^. Ois. 7 . 394. — Buff. PI. 

 Enl. 911. 



Malacca Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 78. 44. 



The Malacca Heron is nineteen inches in length : 

 its beak is dusky, with its sides yellowish near the 



