. Birds. Birds. NTCTICOBAX. QQT 1568. Nycticorax griseus. The MgU Heron. Ardea nycticorax & A. grisea, L. Syst. Nat. i, pp. 235,239 (1766). Nycticorax griseas, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 378; id. Cat. p. 281;. Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 768; Htime Sr Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 296 ^ Ball, S. F. ii, p. 435; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 24; Oates, S. F. y, p. 168; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 690; Hume \ Bav. S. F. vi, p. 484; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 231; Cripps, ibid. p. 309; Hume, Cat. no. 937; Sculli/, S. F. viii, p. 361; Lec/ffe, Birds p. 1165; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 91; Butler, ibid. p. 436 ; Biddu
. Birds. Birds. NTCTICOBAX. QQT 1568. Nycticorax griseus. The MgU Heron. Ardea nycticorax & A. grisea, L. Syst. Nat. i, pp. 235,239 (1766). Nycticorax griseas, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 378; id. Cat. p. 281;. Jerdon, B. I. iii, p. 768; Htime Sr Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 296 ^ Ball, S. F. ii, p. 435; Butler, S. F. iv, p. 24; Oates, S. F. y, p. 168; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 690; Hume \ Bav. S. F. vi, p. 484; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 231; Cripps, ibid. p. 309; Hume, Cat. no. 937; Sculli/, S. F. viii, p. 361; Lec/ffe, Birds p. 1165; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 91; Butler, ibid. p. 436 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 99; Scully, ibid. p. 592; Reid, 8. F. x, p. 76; Davidson, ibid. p. 324; Davison, ibid. p. 417 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 387; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. vi, p. 149. Nyotiardea nycticorax, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. 2, p. 254; Hicme, N. ^ E. p. 624; id. S. F. i, p. 266; ii, pp. 315, 483; iii, p. 192 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv, p. 360; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 259 ; id. in Hume'g N. ^ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 268. Nycticorax nycticorax, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 146. Wdk, Kwdk, Tar bagla, Kohrai, H.; Oadri, Sind; Kowa dauk, Batchka, Beng.; Chinta loakha, Tel.; Sannari, Tarn. (Ceylon); 26® kana koka, Cing.; Lin-wet, Fig. 96.—Head of N. griseus. f. Coloration. Crown and nape (the feathers of which are con- siderably lengthened), back, and scapulars black, glossed with metallic green ; a few narrow white feathers of great length from the nape; forehead, a streak over the eye, cheeks, chin, throaty fore neck, breast, and abdomen white; sides and back of neck, sides of body, wings, rump, and tail light ashy with a pinkish tinge, darkest on tertiaries. Young birds are brown above, darkest on the crown, streaked with buff shaft-stripes, and with triangular buff tips to the back- feathers and wing-coverts; lower plumage white streaked with brown, quills and tail-feathers ashy brown with white tips. Bill black, yellowish at the base, lores and orbits yellowish green, irid
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