10 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM vol.75 



CAPELLA STENURA (Bonaparte) 



Scolopax stetiura Bonaparte Ann. Stor. Nat. Bologna, vol. 4, 1S30, p. 335 



(Sunda Islands). 

 Capella stenura Chasejn and Kloss, Ibis, 1926, p. 277. 



One male, Sipora, October 23. 



GLAREOLA MALDIVARUM Forster 



Olareola (Pratincola) maldivarum Forsteir, Faunula Indica, 1795, p. 11 



(Maldive Islands). 

 Olareola maldivarum Ohasen and Kloss, Ibis, 1926, p. 277. 



One female, Sipora, October 26. 



HEMIGARZETTA EULOPHOTES (Swinhoe) 



Herodias eulopJiotes Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 64 (Amoy, China). 

 Egretta eulophotes Chasen and Kloss, Ibis, 1926, p. 277. 



Chasen and Kloss record a male from Sipora, but the specimen 

 was not forwarded with the collection. 



DEMIGRETTA SACRA SACRA (Gmelin) 



Ardea sacra Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 640 (Tahiti). 



One unsexed, Sipora Island. 



The United States National Museum does not possess a sufficient 

 number of specimens from the southern part of the range of the 

 species to enable me to work out the races, if any, into which it can 

 be divided. The specimen submitted is quite dark, but it can be 

 matched by other specimens from the northern part of the range 

 and a male from the Paumotu Islands is equally dark. The Museum 

 contains a female from Simalur Island that is also dark and quite 

 near the Sipora bird. 



BUTORroES JAVANICUS SIPORA Chasen and Kloss 



Butorides striatus sipora Chasen and Kloss, Ibis, 1926, p. 277. (Sipora 

 Id.) 



Two adult females, Sipora ; one immature, Siberut. 



The above females resemble a male and female from Java very 

 much. They are darker above and the white streak down the fore- 

 neck is wider ; there appears to be little or no difference in size. The 

 type of Butorides javanlcus actophilus, a female from North Pagi 

 Island, is considerably lighter on the breast and sides of neck, has 

 wider buffy margins to the wing-coverts and secondaries, and a con- 

 siderably longer wing. The type of Butorides javanicurS icastopterus 

 from Simalur Island is very close to the type of actophilus and about 

 the same size; it is darker on the breast. A specimen from Nias 

 evidently belongs to icastopterus, if recognizable. Both B. j. actophi- 



