20 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Genus FLORIDA Baird 



Florida Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. 

 Pac, vol, 9, 1858, pp. xxi, xlv, 659, 671. Type, by monotypy, Ardea 

 caerulea Linnaeus. 



Florida caerulea (Linnaeus) : Little Blue Heron 

 Ardea caerulea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 143. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Florida. 



Genus BUTORIDES Blyth 



Butorides Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. Asiatic Soc, 1849 (1852), p. 281. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardea javanica Horsfield. 



Butorides virescens (Linnaeus) : Green Heron 



Ardea virescens Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 144. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Florida. Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Genus NYCTICORAX Forster 



Nycticorax T. Forster, Syn. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, p. 59. Type, by tautonymy 

 and monotypy, Nycticorax injausius Forster = /Irtira nyclicorax Lin- 

 naeus. 



Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus) : Black-crowned Night Heron 



Ardea Nycticorax Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 142. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon, Mexico ; Bradenton, and Itchtucknee River, Flor- 

 ida. Late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern County, and Rancho La 

 Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus NYCTANASSA Stejneger 



Nyctamssa Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 10, Aug. 3, 1887, p. 295. 

 Type, by original designation, Ardea violacea Linnaeus. 



Nyctanassa violacea (Linnaeus) : Yellow- crowned Night Heron 



Ardea violacea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 143. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Florida.^" 



-0 Larus vera Shufeldt, Journ. Geol., 1917, p. 18, from stratum 3 of Vero, 

 Florida, is Nyctanassa z'iolacca, according to Wetmore, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 vol. 85, No. 2, 1931, pp. 3, II, and 16. Cooke, Florida Geol. Surv., Geol. Bull. 29, 

 I945i PP- 306-307, considers this deposit to be of Recent age. 



