4.96 BRITISH BIRDS. 
NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX. 
NIGHT-HERON. 
(PLatE 38.) 
Ardea grisea, 
Ardea mexicana cristata, | Briss. Orn. v. pp. 411, 412, 462 (1760). 
Ardea botaurus neevius, 
Ardea nycticorax, Briss. Orn. v. p. 493, pl. xxxix. (1760); Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. p. 235 
(1766); et auctorum plurimorum—Scopoli, Latham, Gmelin, (Bonaparte), 
Jenyns, Vieillot, Wagler, Boie, Temminck § Schlegel, Degland § Gerbe, Lichten- 
stein, Finsch, Heuglin, David § Oustalet, &c. 
Ardea kwakwa, 
Ardea ferruginea, 
Ardea cyanocephala, Molina, Sagg. Stor. Natural. Chili, p. 344 (1782). 
Ardea neevia (Briss.), Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 56. no. 939 (1783). 
Ardea jamaicensis, 
Ardea hoactli, 
Ardea gardeni, 
Ardea maculata, 
Nycticorax infaustus, Forst. Syn. Cat. Br. B. p. 59 (1817). 
Nycticorax europeeus, Steph, Shaw’s Gen. Zool. xi. p. 609 (1819). 
Ardea sexsetacea, 
Ardea tayazaguira, 
Nycticorax gardenii (G'mel.), Jardine, Wils. Am. Orn. iii. p. 5 (1832). 
ee Ree Hempr. § Ela. Symb. Phys. Aves, fol. m (1833). 
Ardea discors, Nutt. Man. Orn. U.S. ii. p. 54 (1834). 
Nyctiardea europzea (Steph.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 855 (1837). 
Nycticorax americanus, Benap. Comp. List B. Eur. §& N. Amer. p. 48 (1838). 
Ardea (Scotaeus) nycticorax (Briss.), Keys. u. Blas. Wirb, Eur. p. xxx (1840). 
Nycticorax ardeola, Temm. Man. d Orn. iv. p. 884 (1840). 
Nycterodius nycticorax (Briss.), Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 127 (1842). 
Nycticorax griseus (Brvss.), | siee 
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Nyctiardea gardeni (Gmel.), Baird, B. N. Am. p. 678 (1858). 
Nycticorax egyptius (Hasselg.), Gurney, Anderss. B. of Damara Ld. p. 293 (1872). 
Nyctiardea nycticorax (Briss.), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 418. 
Gmel. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xv. pp. 452, 456 (1771). 
Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. pp. 625, 630, 645 (1788). 
Vieill. Tabl. Encycl. Méthod. iii. pp. 1180, 1131 (1828). 
The Night-Heron was first recorded as a British bird by Latham (Gen. 
Syn. iii. p. 53), who mentions a male in the Leverian Museum, which 
was shot not many miles from London in May 1782. Since then 
it has been obtained in our islands at least fifty times. Most of these 
occurrences were in the southern and eastern counties; but it has 
