138 CHECK- LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



202. Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (BODD.). 



Black-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea navia BODD. Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, 56. 



Nyciicorax nycticorax ncevius ZELEDON, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 

 1885, 113. 



[B 495, C 458, R 495' C 664.] 



HAB. America, from the British Possessions southward to the Falk- 

 land Islands, including part of the West Indies. 



SUBGENUS NiCTHERODIUS REICHENBACH. 



Nyctherodius REICH. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xvi. Type, Ardea violacea 

 LINN. 



203. Nycticorax violaceus (LINN.). 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea violacea LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 143. 

 Nycticorax violacca VIGORS, Zool. Journ. III. 1827, 446. 



[B 496, C 459, R 496, C 665.] 



HAB. Warm-temperate Eastern North America, from the Carolinas 

 and the Lower Ohio Valley south to Brazil ; casually north to Massa- 

 chusetts and west to Colorado. 



ORDER PALUDICOL^E CRANES, RAILS, ETC. 



SUBORDER GRUES. CRANES. 



FAMILY GRUID^E. CRANES. 



GENUS GRUS PALLAS. 

 Grits PALL. Misc. Zool. 1766, 66. Type, Ardea grits LINN. 



