ML379832201

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"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.