TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 27 



Butorides viresceus grenadensis Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 42: 568, August 29, 1912. 

 =Butorides virescens maculatus (Boddaert). See Peters, Checklist of 



birds of the world 1: 103-104, 1931. 

 74147. Adult male. Grenada Island, Windward Islands, Caribbean Sea. 



March 1878. Collected by Frederick A. Ober. Original number 505. 

 Butorides virescens mesatus Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 42 : 548, August 29, 1912. 

 =Butorides virescens maculatus (Boddaert) . See Dickey and van Rossem, 



Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. (zool. ser.) 23: 76-78, 1938. 

 151366. Adult female. Managua, Department of Managua, Nicaragua. 



Entered into the museum register on November 21, 1895. Collected by 



Charles E. Kern. 

 Butorides virescens margaritophilus Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 42 : 553, August 29, 1912. 

 200442. Adult male. San Miguel Island, Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama, 



Panama. March 13, 1904. Collected by Wilmot W. Brown, Jr. Re- 

 ceived from John E. Thayer. 

 Butorides robinsoni Richmond 



in Robinson and Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 18: 655, August 12, 



1896. 

 =Butorides striatus robinsoni Richmond. See Peters, Checklist of birds 



of the world 1: 104,1931. 

 151635. Adult male. Margarita Island, in the Caribbean Sea off Vene- 

 zuela. July 7, 1895. Collected by Wirt Robinson. Original number 446. 

 Butorides javanicus actophilus Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 1, October 26, 1912. 

 =Butorides striatus actophilus Oberholser. See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. 94:319, 1944. 

 180100. Adult female. North Pagi Island, Barussan Islands, eastern 



Indian Ocean off Sumatra. January 4, 1903. Collected by William 



L. Abbott. 

 Butorides javanicus icastopterus Oberholser 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 60 (7) : 1, October 26, 1912. 

 =Butorides striatus actophilus Oberholser. See Ripley, Bull. Mus. Comp. 



Zool. 94: 319, 1944. 

 179009. Adult male. Simalur Island, Barussan Islands, eastern Indian 



Ocean off Sumatra. December 10, 1901. Collected by William L. 



Abbott. 

 Butorides javanicus abbotti Oberholser 



U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 159: 14, 1932. 

 =Butorides striatus abbotti Oberholser. See Mayr, Emu 43: 11, 1943. 

 172899. Adult male. Pulau Langkawi, LangkaAvi Islands, in the Strait 



of Malacca off the Malay State of Kedah. December 4, 1899. Col- 

 lected by William L. Abbott. 



