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Genus NYCTANASSA Stejneger. 



Nyctanassa Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 295 (note) 

 [Aug. 3]. Type, by orig. desig., Ardea violacea Linnaeus. 



Nyctanassa violacea violScea (Linnaeus). Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



[203.] 



Ardea violacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. Based on 

 The Crested Bittern, Ardea stellaris cristata americana Catesby, 

 Carolina, I, 79. (in America septentrionali = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, southern Illinois, 

 southern Indiana, Ohio (rarely), New Jersey, Massachusetts (rarely), and South 

 Carolina; also in the Bahamas and West Indies and south to Brazil and Peru. 

 Winters from southern Florida southward. Occurs casually north to Colorado, 

 Iowa, Nebraska, Ontario, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova 

 Scotia. 



Nyctanassa violacea bancrofti Huey. Bancroft's Night Heron. [203a.] 



Nyctanassa violacea bancrofti Huey, Condor, XXIX, No. 3, May 15, 1927, 

 167. (Scammon Lagoon, Lower California, Mexico.) 



Range. — Locally resident in southern Lower California, south of lat. 28°30' 

 N., and along the Pacific coast south at least to Salvador. 



Subfamily BOTAURINAE. Bitterns. 



Genus BOTAURUS Stephens. 



Botaurus Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XI, Pt. ii, Aug., 1819, 

 592. Type, by subs, desig., Ardea stellaris Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Montagu). American Bittern. [190.] 



Ardea lentiginosa Montagu, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 1813, not paged, see under 

 Heron, Freckled (with plate). (Piddletown, Dorsetshire, England.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Columbia, southern Mackenzie, 

 northern Manitoba, southern Ungava Peninsula, and Newfoundland south to 

 southern California, central Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, the 

 Ohio Valley, and southern New Jersey, and less frequently in the southern 

 United States; occasional in summer and autumn in southeastern Alaska. 

 Winters from British Columbia, Idaho, southern Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, and Virginia south to Cul>a, Guatemala, and Panama, and 

 casually to the Bahamas, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and Bermuda. Accidental in 

 Iceland, Greenlrnd, Great Britain, and the Azores. 



