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Butorides javanicus carcinophonus Oberholser 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 14: 294, July 19, 1924. 

 =Butorides striatus carcinophonus Oberholser. See Mayr, Emu 43: 11, 



1943. 

 182229. Adult female. Pulau Alanga, a reef off Maratua Island, in the 

 Celebes Sea off Borneo. May 12, 1913. Collected by Harry C. Raven. 

 Original number 660. 

 Butorides javanicus carcinophilus Oberholser 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 14: 294, July 19, 1924. 

 =Butorides striatus carcinophilus Oberholser. See Mayr, Emu 43: 11- 



12, 1943. 

 201671. Adult female. Casiguran, Principe Province, Luzon Island, 

 Philippine Islands. June 1, 1907. Collected by Edgar A. Meams. 

 Original number 15261. 

 Ardea patruelis Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 216, "pi. LXI, fig. 1," 

 1848. 

 =Butorides striatus patruelis (Peale). See Hartert, Die Vogel der 

 palaarktischen Fauna 2: 1251, 1920. 



15303. Adult male. Tahiti Island, Society Islands, Oceania. Original 

 number 594. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



15304. Immature (sex not indicated). Same data as No. 15303. 



The exact number of specimens available to Peale is now unknown. 

 Cassin's MS. list indicates that he had but two, and agrees with the entries 

 for the species in the museum register. 



No. 15303 was sent in 1881 to the Chicago Academy of Sciences, but was 

 returned to the National Museum in 1919. 



Genus CASMERODIUS Gloger 



Herodias egretta, var. californica Baird 



in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R.R. Pac. 9: xlv, 

 667, 1858. 

 =Casmerodius albus egretta (Gmelin). See Grinnell, Univ. California 



Publ. Zool.38:264, 1932. 

 4610. Adult in nonbreeding plumage (sex not indicated). San Diego, 

 San Diego County, California. Entered into the museum register on 

 February 15, 1856. Collected by Arthur C. V. Schott. Received 

 from the U.S. Boundary Commission. 

 9470. Adult in nonbreeding plumage (sex not indicated). San Diego, 

 San Diego County, California. 1855? Collected by Andrew Cassidy. 

 Baird listed four specimens of his new form, of which one came doubt- 

 fully from Texas, a second simply from "California," and the remaining 

 two from San Diego. 



Grinnell {lac. cit.) considered No. 9470 the type, and it must be admitted 

 that, while the description equally fits Nos. 9470 and 4610, the measure- 



