82 ON A COLLECTrON OF BIRDS 



Botaurus limnicola, Rch.b. Syn. Av. II. Grallatores, 1. 148, fig. 510 



(juv. apud tab. 581 in Temrn. PI. Col,). 

 Tigrisoma melanolopha, Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, p. 



114 (Ceylon). 

 Botaurus limnophilax, Bp. Consp. Av. U. p. 136 (1855) (apud Temm.); 



— Gray, Handl. Birds, III. p. 32 (1871); — Salvad. Ucc. di 

 Borneo, p. 355 (1874) (Borneo); - Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1877, 

 p. 247. 



Gorsachius goisaki, Bp. Consp. Av, p. 138 (descr. ad. nee non juv. !) 

 (Japan?). 



Gorsachius typus, Pucheran (teste Bp., I. c). 



Ardea goisagi, Swinh. Ibis, 1861 , p. 344 (juv. North China). 



Ardea limnophylax, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Ardeae,p. 55 (1863) (Philip- 

 pines, Banka, Java). 



Nycticorax melanfilophus , Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 320 (Tientsin). 



Gorsachius goisagi, Swinh. Ibis 1866, pp. 122, 123 (juv. Formosa); 

 id. Ibis 1866, p. 403 (ad. Formosa). 



Ardea philippensis , Martens (nee Gm.) J. f. 0. 1866, p. 28 (Phi- 

 lippines). 



Gorsachius melanolopJius , Blyth, Ibis 1867, p. 173 (partim) and 

 p. 309 (partim) (Ceylon); — Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 355 

 (1874) (Borneo?);- Walden, Trans. Z. S. IX (1875) p. 238 

 (Philippines); — David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 444 

 (partim); — Hume, Stray Feath. 1878 (Vol. VI), p. 484 (Te- 

 nasserim); — Sharpe, Ibis 1879, p. 271 (Borneo); — Legge, 

 Birds of Ceylon, p. 1169 (1880) (Ceylon); — Gurney , Ibis 

 1883, p. 222 (East Coast of Ceylon). 



{?) Goisachius melanolophus , Swinh, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 413 (For- 

 mosa) ;— Holdsworth , P. Z. S. 1872, p. 478 (Ceylon). 



Goisakius tnelanolophus , Hume, Stray Feath. 1874, p. 312 (Nico- 

 bars); — Bourdillon , Stray Feath. 1878 (Vol. VII) p. 524 

 (Travancore) ; — Hume , Stray Feath, 1879, p. 71 (Malacca); 



— Hume, Stray Feath, 1880, p, 230 (Nicobars, Tenasserim, 

 Malay Peninsula, Cachar, Assam, Travancore, Belgaum Dis- 

 trict (Indian Peuins.)); — id. 1. c. p. 259 (Cachar); — But- 

 ler, 1. c. p. 435 (Belgaum); - Kelham, Ibis 1882, p. 196 

 (Singapore). 



Botaurus melanolophus, Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1877, p. 240. 

 Butio Kulteri, Cab. Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 159; id. J. f. 0.1881, 

 p. 425 (Philippines); id, J. f, 0, 1882, pp. 115, 178, pi. III. 



1 specimen (full-grown juu. cf). 

 »Iris sulphur-yellow, bill dark browu, edges of upper 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. IX. 



