ARDEA. 
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JIab. Derby, N.W. Australia, Port Darwin and Port Essington, 
Gulf of Carpentaria. Cape York, Rockingham Ray, Port Denison, 
Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 
New South Wales, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
Family ARDEIDiE. 
Genus ARDEA, Linnceus. 
ARDEA SUMATRANA, Raffles. 
(Ardea rectiroslris, Gould.) 
Great-hilled Heron. 
Qoidd, Uandllc. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 546, p. 296. 
“ The nest of this species found hy Gilbert on Cohourg 
Peninsula was built in an upright fork of a large and lofty 
Melaleuca at about eighty feet from the ground, and was formed 
of an outer layer of very strong sticks, with a few small twigs as 
a lining, and contained two eggs of a light ash-grey.” (Gould, 
Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. ii., p. 296.) 
Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Rockingham Bay, Port 
Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales. (Ramsay.) 
ARDEA PACIFICA, Latliam. 
Pacific Heron. 
Gould, Ilandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 547, p. 297. 
This fine Heron was observed by Mr. K. H. Bennett breeding 
in company with Platibis jlavipes, on trees in swamps, in the 
Lachlan district, the nest is composed of sticks laid crossways 
over some horizontal fork or flat portion of a thick bough, it is a 
scanty structure, through which the eggs, four for a sitting can 
be seen. They are of a beautiful pale blue, average specimens 
