TROPICAL ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 49 



Aruea (Butorides) STAGNALIS. 



Ardea stagnalis, (Gould) Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. 1858, p. 297. 

 Ardea patruelis, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exjjcd. p. 2 Hi. 

 Butorides patruelis, Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. p. 130. 

 Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 67. 



Society Islands (Otaheite). 



Ardea (Ardetta) exilis. 



Ardea exilis, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 216. 

 Bofaurus exilisi, Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 300. 

 Ardea pusilla, Vieill. ? 



Ardetta pusilla, Gould, B. of Austr. vii. pi. 68. 

 Society Islands (Oaliu). 



Ardea (Ardetta) sinensis. 

 Ardea sinensis, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 642? 



"Petit Heron aux ailes noires,'' Quoy & Gaim. Voy. de I'Uranie, 

 Zool. i. p. 536. 



Ardea lepida, (Horsf.) Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 573. 

 ' Kakag' of the natives. 

 Ladrone or Marian Islands. 



Nycticorax caledonicus. 



Caledonian Night Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. p. 55. 

 Ardea ferruginea, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 274 ; G. Forst. Icon. ined. 

 111. 

 Ardea caledonica, Gmel. S. N. i. p, 626. 

 Ardea Sparmanni, Wagl. Syst. Av. Ard. sp. 32. 

 Nycticorax caledonicus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 613. 

 Gould, B. of Austr. vi. pi. 63. 



New Caledonia. 



Note. — The A. caledonica, juv., figured by Kittlitz in his Kupf. 

 Vog. t. 35. f. 2, is the young of iV^. crassirostris. Vigors, 



Nycticorax manillensis (?). 



Nycticorax manillensis, jnv., Pr. B. Consp. Av. ii. p. 140. 



Solomon Islands. 



(?) Nycticorax oceanicus. 



Nycticorax oceanicus. Less. ; Hartl. Wiegm. Arch, fiir Naturg. 

 1852, p. 135. 



Marquesas Islands. 



SCOLOPACID^. 

 NUMENIUS TAHITIENSIS. 



Scolopax phaeopus, Linn. An, I ; Forst. Descr. &i'. p. 242 ; G. 

 Forst. Icon. ined. 131. 



