414 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus BUTORIDES Blyth. 



Buloridcs Blyth, Catal. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc, 1849 [1852?], 281. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardca javanica Horsfield. 



Butorides virescens (Linnaeus). Green Heron. 



Ardea vircscc7is Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 144. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Florida. 



Genus NYCTICORAX Forster. 



Nydicorax T. Forster, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by 

 monotypy, Nydicorax infaustus Forster = Ardca nydicorax. Linnaeus. 



Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus). Black-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea nydicorax Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 142. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Bradenton, and Itchtucknee River, 

 Florida; Ilancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus NYCTANASSA Stejneger. 



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

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



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

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

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Vero and Seminole Field, Florida. 



Genus EOCEORNIS Shufeldt. 



Eoceornis Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts. Sci., XIX, Feb., 1915, 39. 

 Type, by monotypy, Eoceornis ardetla Shufeldt. 



Eoceornis ardetta Shufeldt. 



Eoceornis ardetta Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 

 1915, 39, pi. XIII, fig. 102. 



Eocene (Bridger); Henry's P'ork, Wyoming. 



Subfamily BOTAURINAE. Bitterns. 



Genus BOTAURUS Stephens. 



Botaurus Stephens, in Shaw, General Zoology, XI, Pt. ii, Aug., 1819, 592. 

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



