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Title: Birds
Identifier: cu31924000100358 (find matches)
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Oates, Eugene William, 1845-1911; Blandford, William Thomas, 1832-1905
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Taylor and Francis
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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388 AHDEID^. feathers also leugthened and lanceolate, not decomposed, and a crest- of two long attenuated feathers. All of these are wanting at other times. Bill black at all seasons, base of lower mandible yellowish; facial skin greenish yellow; iris yellow ; tarsus black, toes mixed yellow- ish and black (Oates) ; toes yellow or greenish yellow (Jerdon). Length about 25 ; tail 3-75; wing 11; tarsus 4 ; bill from gape 4..
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fig. 91.—Head of H. garzetta. ^. JHstribution. Southern Europe, the whole of Africa and Southern Asia to China and Japan, the Malay Archipelago and Australia being inhabited by a doabtfuUy separable form. Common through- out India, Ceylon, and Burma. Habits, Sfc. The Little Egret breeds at the same time and in the same manner as the other species, and in company with them. Its eggs are more numerous, frequently 5 or 6 in a nest, they are smaller and measure 1-73 by 1-32. I have examined the skin from Amherst near Moulmein referred to H. euhphotes by Hume. It is certainly not Lepterodius sacer (with which H. eulophotes, Swinhoe, is identified, rightly I believe, by Sharpe). It is probably an abnormally small specimen of H. gar- zetta, having a tarsus only 3*1 in. long. H. nigripes, Temm. (S. immamilata,Gouli), inhabiting the Malay Archipelago and Australia, has been separated from H. garzetta for various reasons, none of which, so far as I can ascertain, are valid. Genus BXJBULCUS, Bonap., 1854. This is distinguished from Herodias by shorter bill and feet, by the nude portion of the tibia being shorter than the inner toe without claw, and by the changes in the breeding-season being quite difEerent. The culmen is much shorter than the middle toe and claw, and these are shorter than the tarsus. In non-breeding plumage birds of this genus are pure white, but in the breeding-- season buff hair-like plumes appear on the head, neck, and back. The habits of the present genus differ greatly from those oiSerodias. Only two species are known; they inhabit the warmer parts of Europe and Asia, and the whole of Africa. One species is- Indian.

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