Order ARDEIF0BME8 
No. 238. 
Family ARDEIDM. 
MYOLA PACIFICA. 
WHITE -NECKED HERON. 
(Plate 189.)* 
Ardea PACIFICA Latham, Index Omith., Suppl., p. bcv., 1801 ; New South Wales. 
Ardea pacifica Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. Ixv., 1801 ; Jardine and Selby, Ulus. 
Ornith., Vol. II., pi. 90, 1830 ; Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 52, 1847 ; 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 297, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 
1877, p. 341 ; Williams, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1876, p. 2, 1877 ; 
Bennett, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 324, 1882 ; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 317, 1890 ; Keartland, 
Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 188, 1898. 
Ardea hullaragang Wagler, Syst. Av., Ardea, p. 175, sp. 5, 1827 (New South Wales). 
Ardea bullaranjaus Gray, in Griffith’s ed. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., Vol. VIII., p. 337, 1829. 
Notophoyx pacifica Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. V., p. xi., 1895 ; HaU, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 98, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 955, 1901 ; 
Hall, Emu, Vol. II., p. 67, 1902 ; Le SouM, ib., p. 157, 1903 ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XII., p. 204, 1905 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 98, 1906 ; Ingram, Ibis 
1907, p. 394 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 115, 1907 ; Mathews, Hand!. Birds 
Austral., p. 32, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1909, p. 615 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 67, 1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 193, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, 
p. 176 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 27, 1913. 
Notophoyx pacifica pacifica Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 231, 1912. 
Notophoyx pacifica alexandrcc Mathews, ib. (Alexandra, Northern Territory) ; id., Austral 
Av. Rec., Vol. L, p. 55, 1912. 
Myola pacifica Mathews, List Austr. Birds, p. 82, 1913. 
Distribution. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male, in breeding-plumage. Back, Avings, scapulars, and tail greenish-black with 
elongated lanceolate plumes on the scapulars of deep maroon with dark slate- 
coloured tips, the feathers on the sides of the breast also deep maroon ; the 
small coverts at the bend and outer margin of the wing, both above and below, 
pure white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills greenish-black hke the 
tail ; head, including the long nuchal crest, and neck all round, white tinged with 
buff and sometimes with an irregular double line of dark spots down the 
middle of the fore-neck, with long ornamental lanceolate feathers on the lower 
* The Plate is lettered Notophoyx pacifica. 
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