368 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[Ardea wurdemanni Baird. Wiirdemann's Heron. 



Ardea wiirdemannii Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. 

 and Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 669. (Florida.) 



Now regarded as a hybrid between Ardea ocddentalis Audubon and Ardea 

 herodias wardi Ridgway (cf. Holt, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., I, 

 No. 1, July 28, 1928, 1-35 (pis. 1-4). Dropped in third edition.] 



Mesophoyxi intermedia (Wagler). Plumed Egret. 



Ardea intermedia Wagler, Isis von Oken, XXII, 1829, Heft vi (June), 

 col. 659. (Java.) 



There seems to be some uncertainty whether the specimen of this Old 

 World species alleged to have been taken at Vancouver, British Columbia, 

 was really shot there (cf. Brooks, Condor, XXV, No. 5, Oct. 3, 1923, 180). 

 Consequently the species is now entered in the Hyi)othetical List. 



[Dichromanassa pealei (Bonaparte). Peale's Egret. 



Ardea pealii Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., II, 1826, 154. 

 (Florida.) 



Now regarded as a color phase of Dichromanassa rufesceus (Gmelin). 

 Dropped from the List in the third edition.] 



Ixobrychus neoxenus (Cory). Cory's Least Bittern. [191.1] 



Ardeita neoxena Cory, Auk, III, No. 2, April, 1886, 262. (Caloosahatchie 

 River, near Lake Okeechobee, Florida.) 

 Breeds in Ontario and Florida and has occurred in Massachusetts, Michigan, 

 New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Now regarded as a melanistic foim of 

 Ixobrtjchus exilis (Gmelin), and transferred to the Hypothetical List. 



Jabiru- mycteria (Lichtenstein). Jabiru. [189.] 



Ciconia mycteria Lichtenstein, Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.), 

 1816-17 [1819], 163. (Brazil.) 



The record of this tropical species from Austin, Texas (cf. Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1867, 248) is regarded as unsatisfactoiy and it is therefore trans- 

 ferred to the Hypothetical List. The species is known only from Aigentina 

 to Nicaragua with one record each from Guatemala and Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



1 Mesophoyx Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, III, No. XVII, April 30, 1894, 

 xxxviii. Type, by monotypy, Ardea intermedia Wagler. 



2 Jabiru Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II, Kl., XXII, May, 1906, 

 711. Type, by orig. desig., Ciconia mycteria Lichtenstein. 



