NO. 1116. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



603 



Butorides plumhem, Sclater .and Salvin, Nora. Av. Jseotr.. 1873, p. 125.— Salvin, 



Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Ft. ix, 1876, p. 497 (Indefatigable and James islands); 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 1883, p. 428 (Charles Island).-RiDCxWAV, Troc. U. 8. Nat. 



Mus.. XII, 1889, pp. 114, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124 (Chatham, Indefatigable, 



James, Abingdon, Duncan, and Hood i.slands). 

 Ardea HunderalU, Reichenow, Jonrn. fiir Orn., July, 1877, p. 2.53 (Galapagos 



Islands). 



ASCEKTAINEl, KANGE <.F THE GENUS BUTORIDES, KLYTH, IN THE GALAPAGOS 



AIJCHIPELAGO. 



1. Biitoridrs phnnlieus (Snndevall^. 



Specinc cliaracfers.-Oi- much stouter build and darker coloratioii 

 tliaii auy other Americau species of the geuus, the adult with little it 

 any brown or chestuut iu the plumage, which is plain gray (of varying 

 shade) beneath, darker, glossed with green, above; young striped with 

 whitish on a dusky ground beneath the dusky upper parts and neck, 

 varied with rusty. Wing, G.98-7.50; culmen, 2.05-2.80; depth ut bill 

 at base, 0.53-0.00; tarsus, 1.72-2.15; middle toe, 1.65-2.06. 



EaH^e.-Galapagos Archipelago: Albemarle Islaud (Baur and 



