=Egretta intermedia intermedia= (Wagler) Plumed Egret _Ardea intermedia_ Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659. (Type locality, Java.) _Egretta intermedia intermedia_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 183 (Koror); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 203 (Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 42 (Rota, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Ulithi). _Egretta intermedia_ Wharton and Hardcastle, Journ. Parasitology, 32, 1946, pp. 306, 310 (Ulithi); Baker, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, p. 408 (Guam). _Geographic range._--India and Ceylon east to Malaysia, Philippines, China and Japan. In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Saipan, Rota, Guam; Palau Islands--Koror, Peleliu, Angaur; Caroline Islands--Ulithi. _Characters._--Adult: A large white heron with green facial skin; black legs, feet and toes. In breeding plumage: Head with crest; neck and back with ornamental plumes; bill black. Winter plumage: Without crest or plumes; bill yellow with blackish tip. Immature: Resembles adult in winter plumage, but feathers soft and downy. _Measurements._--Five males from Saipan, Rota, Guam, and Angaur measure: wing, 295-321 (308); tail, 112-127 (119); culmen, 85-87 (87); tarsus, 111-118 (114); three females from Saipan, Ulithi, Angaur: wing, 294-301 (297); tail, 101-116 (110); culmen, 77-83 (80); tarsus, 108-115 (107). _Weights._--The author (1948:43) records the weights of two males from Guam as 445 and 463. _Specimens examined._--Total number, 8 (5 males, 3 females), as follows: Mariana Islands, USNM--Saipan, 2 (Sept. 29, Oct. 2)--Rota, 1 (Oct. 31)--Guam, 2 (June 13); Palau Islands, USNM--Angaur, 2 (Sept. 21); Caroline Islands, USNM--Ulithi, 1 (Aug. 15). _Food habits._--The NAMRU2 party found grasshoppers, other insects, spiders and lizards in the stomachs of egrets taken at Guam, Ulithi, and Angaur. _Parasites._--Wharton and Hardcastle (1946:306, 310) obtained the chiggers (Acarina), _Neoschöngastia egretta_ and _N. ewingi_, from this egret from Ulithi.