Order ARDEIFORMES 
No. 239. 
Family ARDEIDM. 
TONOPHOYX ARUENSIS ELAVIROSTRIS. 
PIED EGRET. 
(Plate 190.)* 
Notophoyx ELAVIROSTRIS Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 654, 1898 ; 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Ardea {Herodias) picata (not Raffles 1820) Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.) 1845, p. 62 
(Port Essington). 
Herodias picata Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 62, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 306, 1865 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888. 
Ardea picata Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., App,, p. 25, 1849. 
Agamia picata “ Reich.” Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 120, 1855. 
Notophoyx picata Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. V., p. xi., 1895 ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool., Vol. XII., p. 204, 1905. 
Notophoyx flavirostris Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p, 654, 1898 ; Hall, 
Key Birds Austr., p. 99, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 957, 
1901 ; Oates, Cat. Birds Eggs Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 119, 1902; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 99, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 32, 1908 ; id., Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 56, 1909 ; id., ih., Vol. X., p. 105, 1910 ; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 231, 1912. 
Tonophoyx aruensis flavirostris Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 82, 1913. 
Distribution. North Queensland ; Northern Territory ; North-west Australia. 
Adult male. Crown of head, sides of face, and nuchal crest slaty-black like the lower 
hind-neck, back, wings, tail, and entire under-surface, with ornamental lanceolate 
plumes on the upper-back ; throat and entire fore-neck white. Bill yellow, 
lores and base of upper mandible slaty-brown ; eyes yeUow ; feet and legs 
olive-yeUow. Total length 475 mm. ; culmen 68, wing 233, tail 84, tarsus 79. 
Adult female, in ireeding-plumage. Similar to the male. 
Young birds have the coverts on the outer margin of the wing more or less white, as 
also the feathers on the middle of the abdomen. 
Immature. Head, nuchal crest, and neck all round white Uke the breast, middle of 
abdomen, and under tail-coverts, the latter more or less grey at the tips ; back, 
wings, and tail bluish slate-colour ; the coverts round the bend of the wing 
broadly tipped with white ; sides of the body, thighs, axillaries, and under wing- 
coverts dark slate-colour, similai to the upper-surface. 
Nest. Not described. 
The Plate is lettered Notophoyx flavirostris. 
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