ML379832201

Detalhes da observação

"Nycticorax magnifica. (Plate XXXIII.) Nycticorax magnifica, Grant, Ibis, 1899, p. 586. This species is most nearly allied to N. leuconotus (WagL), but differs chiefly in the following particulars :—The back is uniform brown like the wings ; some of the concealed feathers of the lower back have a subterminal oval white spot at the extremity ; a white band runs from behind the eye to the base of the long black crest (3 inches in length) ; the chin, throat, and fore part of the sides of the neck are white ; the hinder parts of the sides of the neck chestnut ; the middle of the fore-neck reddish brown, widely edged on either side with black ; some of the intermediate feathers with pale buff middles ; the rest of the underparts white, with wide irregular margins of reddish brown ; and the thighs are dark reddish brown on the outer and white on the inner aspect. 'Iris dark brown ; skin round the eye and base of bill sulphur greenish yellow ; rest of bill black ; feet pea-green.' —J. W. Total length about 20 inches ... This magnificent Night-Heron is not very closely allied to any known form ; the style of the coloration of the lower parts is most like that of Gorsachius melanolophus. Hab. Five-Finger Mountains, interior of Hainan." Source: Ogilvie Grant, W.R., 1899, Birds of Hainan [featuring notes on the specimens collected by John Whitehead during his ill-fated 1899 expedition], published in the Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London for the Year of 1900, pp. 457-504, published by Longmans, Green, and Co. The collection date is estimated, based on John Whitehead’s diary.