. Birds. Birds. iJ92 aedeiDjE. «lightly disintegrated, extendiug nearly to the end of the tail, and lanceolate pectoral plumes. As in L. asha, some birds of all ages are white throughout, the adults with crests and pectoral plumes, and with the feathers of t:he dorsal train sometimes extending beyond the tail. Nestlings vary, being white, grey, or pied. Soft parts very variable. Bill brown, yellowish on lower man- dible, sometimes, in white individuals, yellow throughout; irides yellow; legs and feet dark green, varying to paler green or to Fig. 93.—Head of L. sacer. ^. Length about 22;
. Birds. Birds. iJ92 aedeiDjE. «lightly disintegrated, extendiug nearly to the end of the tail, and lanceolate pectoral plumes. As in L. asha, some birds of all ages are white throughout, the adults with crests and pectoral plumes, and with the feathers of t:he dorsal train sometimes extending beyond the tail. Nestlings vary, being white, grey, or pied. Soft parts very variable. Bill brown, yellowish on lower man- dible, sometimes, in white individuals, yellow throughout; irides yellow; legs and feet dark green, varying to paler green or to Fig. 93.—Head of L. sacer. ^. Length about 22; tail 3-7; wing 10-75 (9-62-11-75) j tarsus 2-9 ; bill from gape 3-8. Distribution. The whole Burmese coast, the reefs and shores of the Andamans and Nicobars, the coasts of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to China and Japan in one direction, and to Aus- "tralia and the islands of the Pacific in another. Habits, Sfc. Very similar to those of L. asha. Eggs taken in Arrakan and the Andaman Islands from April to June do not exceed three in number in each nest; they are pale sea-green in colour, and measure about 1'7 by 1"3. The nests were, as usual, of sticks. Genus ARDEOLA, Boie, 1822. The Pond Herons, or, as they are often called by British orni- thologists, Squajco Herons, are smaller than the true Herons and JEgrets, and are somewhat intermediate in plumage between Egrets and Herons. The head, neck, and back are always coloured, but undergo a complete change of colour in the breeding-season; the posterior half of the body, with the wings and taU, is white. The species are scarcely distinguishable in non-breeding plumage, though differing widely in their nuptial garb. The feathers of the neck, back, and upper breast are elongate, and those of the last two decomposed in breeding-plumage; a crest of elongate lanceolate feathers is only developed in the breeding- season. Both the neck and tarsi are shorter than in typiral Herons; the bill is stout, the culmen abou
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