ARDEirME. 
Genus ARDEOLA Boie. 
Ardeola ralloides (Scop.). Pond- Heron. 
(Ardeola ralloides ralloides (Scop.). 
Ardea ralloides Scopoli, Ann. i. Hist. Nat. 1769, p. 88: Krain. 
Distr. — Extra-limit al. ] 
Ardeola ralloides bacehus (Bp.). 1 
Buphus bacckus t Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. ii, 1855, p. 127 ; 
Malay Peninsula. 
tCancrama leucoptera Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, p. 54 ; Malacca. 
} Ardea maLaccensis Gmet., Syst. Nat. i, 2, 178Q, p. 643 : Malacca. 
Distr . — Malay Peninsula. 
Borneo; Natuna Islands. 
Ardeola ralloides speciosa (Horsf.). 
Ardea speciosa Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 189: 
Java. 
Buphus fseudo-mlloides Brebm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 290: u India 
orien tali Java. 
t r. — Borneo . 
Java; Bali; Thousand Islands; Karimon-Java Islands; 
Kangean Islands. 2 
Ardeola ibis (Linn.), Cattle Egret, 
{Ardeola ibis ibis (Linn.). 
Ardea Ibis Linn., Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758* p. 144 : Egypt. 
Distr. — Extra-limital. ] 
Ardeola ibis coromanda (Bodd.). 
Cancroma Coromanda Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enlum. 1783, p. 54 : 
Coromandel Coast. 
Ardea affinis Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. (8g: Java. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula; Anamba Islands, 
Sumatra. 
Borneo. 
Java; Bali. 
* Probably visits Sumatra : has been recorded from the Andamans and 
“leucoptera " is recorded from Nias Island, West Sumatra. It is impossible 
to say what this latter is. We cannot distinguish between bacckus and grayi 
in winter, or immature plumage and as all birds of this genus in breeding, 
or moulting plumage, examined by us from the Malay Peninsula are 
bacckus, grayi is omitted from the list. A specimen of speciosa said to be 
from Singapore, is in the Berlin Museum but the provenance is doubtful. 
3 There seems to be no trustworthy record for Sumatra. See 
Salocnonson, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iqiq, p. 347, 
