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Ardea herodias, love-gestures of the male. Ardea ludoviciana, age of mature plumage in; continued growth of crest and plumes in the male of. Ardea nycticorax, cries of. Ardeola, young of. Ardetta, changes of plumage in. Argenteuil. Argus pheasant, display of plumage by the male; ocellated spots of the; gradation of characters in the.

Swinhoe, R., on the common rat in Formosa and China; behaviour of lizards when caught; on the sounds produced by the male hoopoe; on Dicrurus macrocercus and the spoonbill; on the young of Ardeola; on the habits of Turnix; on the habits of Rhynchaea bengalensis; on Orioles breeding in immature plumage. Sylvia atricapilla, young of. Sylvia cinerea, aerial love-dance of the male.

It is, however, included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey, probably on the authority of one of the earlier specimens mentioned by Mr. MacCulloch. There is no specimen at present in the Museum. SQUACCO HERON. Ardeola cornuta, Pallas. French, "Heron crabier." I have in my collection a Guernsey-killed specimen of the Squacco Heron, which Mr.

This case is all the more interesting, because with two other species of Ardeola both sexes retain, during the winter and summer, nearly the same plumage as that possessed by the three first species during the winter and in their immature state; and this plumage, which is common to several distinct species at different ages and seasons, probably shews us how the progenitors of the genus were coloured.

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