WHITE EGRET. 
series. I am therefore utilising the Gouldian name synnatophora given to the 
Australian bird, and at the present time am uniting all Australian birds 
under the one subspecific name. I separated the North-western bird on 
account of its smaller size ; but by reason of the measurements overlapping, 
am not recognising it in this place, though there is little doubt from the 
series that the Northern bird does average smaller. 
The bird figured and described is a male, collected on Melville Island, 
Northern Territory, on January 13th, 1912, by Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
