166 ARDEID^. 



l-u. Ad. sk. Cozumel Island, Jan. {O. F. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Gaumer). 

 r. $ ad. sk. Grassy Key, British Honduras, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



May 20 (O. S.). 

 xo, X. Ad. sk. Las Salinas, Guatemala, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



March {0. S.). 

 y, s, «'. Ad. sk. Momotombo, Nicaragua, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( W. B. Mic/ianho?)). 

 b'. (S imm. sk. Escondido River, Nicaragua, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Oct. 6 (C. IF. Richmond), 

 c', d', S $ ad. sk. Mina de Chorcha, Chiriqui, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Panama (-C. Arce). 



18. GORSACHIUS. 



Gorsakius, Bp. Consp. ii. p. 138 (1855) G. goisagi. 



Butio, Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 246 G. melanolophus. 



Range. Southern India and Ceylon, Burmese countries to the 

 Malayan peninsula and islands; Japan, Formosa. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. Head black ; axillaries barred with black and 



white ; primaries with a whitish tip melanolojihvs, p. 166. 



b. Head vinous chestnut; axillaries rufous, barred 



with black; primaries rufous at the tip, the 



whitish tip obsolete goisagi, p. 169. 



1. Gorsachius melanoloplius. 



Ardea melanolopha, Raffles, Tr. Linn. 8oc. xiii. p. 326 (1822 r 

 Sumatra) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 38 (Malacca, Aracan). 



Nycticorax limnophilax, Temm. Rl. Col. pi. 581 (1836 : Java) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 558 (1817). 



Botaurus limnicola, Reichenb. Grail. Taf. 86. fig. 510 (1846). 



Tigrisoma melanolopha, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. Beng. p. 281 

 (1849 : Ceylon ; Sumatra) ; Bayard, Ann. Nat. Hist. xiv. p. 114 

 (1854: Ceylon). 



Tigrisoma limnicola, Reichenb. An. Syst. Nat. p. xvi (1852). 



Botaurus limnopliilax, Bp. Cons}}. ii. p. 136 (1855) ; Salvad. Ucc. 

 Born. p. 355 (1874) ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1877, p. 241. 



Gorsachius typns, Pucher. ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 138 (1855) ; id. C. R. xl. 

 p. 723 (1855). 



Ardea limnophylax, iSchl.Mus.Pays-Bas, Ardeae, p. 55 (1863: Bangka; 

 Java; Philippines) ; Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 278 (1878-79: Celebes), 



Ardea melalophos (laj^sn), Jerd. B. Ind. iii. p. 758 (1864). 



Gorsachius melanolophus, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 38 ; id. R)is, 1867, 

 p. 173; Holdsiv. F. Z. S. 1872, p. 478; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 355 

 (1874) ; Hume, Str. F. ii. p. 312 (1874 : Nicobars) ; Walden, Tr. 

 Z. S. ix. p. 238 (1875) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 271 (Brunei ; Lawas 

 Hiver) ; Bourd. Str. F. viii. p. 624 (1879 : Travancore) ; Hume, 

 Str. J'.'viii. p. 71 (Malacca), p. 114 (Cat.) ; id. Str. F. ix. p. 230> 

 (1880) ; Legye, B. Ceylon, p. 1167 (1880). 



Ardea (I3otaui-us) philippensis. Martens, J. f. 0. 1866, p 28 (Philip- 

 pines). 



