Order ARDEIFORMES 
No. 236. 
Family ARDEIDM, 
HERODIAS ALBA SYRMATOPHORA. 
WHITE EGRET. 
(Plate 187.)* 
Herodias syematophorus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 56, 1846 ; New South 
Wales. 
Herodias syrmatophorus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 56, 1846 ; Sturt, Narr. Exp. 
Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 51, 1849. 
Egretta syrmatophora Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XL., p. 722, 1855. 
Ardea syrmatophora Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1858, p. 197. 
Herodias alba Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p, 301, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 341 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888 ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 398, 1890 ; Morton, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1892, 
p. vi., 1893 ; Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 189, 
1898. 
Herodias timoriensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 98, 1898 ; Robinson 
and Laverock, Ibis 1900, p. 651 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 952, 
1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 98, 1906 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 115, 
1907 ; Mattingley, ib., Vol. VII., pp. 69-72, 1907 ; Ingram, Ibis 1907, p. 394 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 32, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463 ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, ib., 1910, p. 177 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 105, 1910 ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 192, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, 
Vol. IV., p. 21, 1913. 
Herodias alba timoriensis Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 204, 1905. 
Egretta alba syrmatophora Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 230, 1912. 
Egretta alba neglecta Mathews, ib. (Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia). 
Herodias alba syrmatophora Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 81, 1913 ; id.. Ibis 1914, p. 106. 
Distribution. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male, in breeding-plumage. Entire plumage pure white, above and below, with 
a very long dorsal train. Bill yellow, tomium and tip black; lores, bare skin 
round the eye and corner of mouth greenish-yellow ; eye and eyelash yellow ; feet 
and legs black ; knee and lower tibia yellow. Total length 1,000 mm. ; culmen 
121, wing 372, tail 133, tarsus 150. 
Adult female, in breeding-plumage. Similar to the adult male but smaller ; culmen 98, 
wing 328, tarsus 144, 
* The Plate is lettered Egretta neglecta. 
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