74 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus NYCTICORAX STEPHENS. 
SuscENus NYCTICORAX. 
Nycticorax StEPH. Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 1819, 608. Type, Ardea 
mycticorax LINN. 
202. Nycticorax nycticorax nzvius (Bopp.). 
Black-crowned Night Heron. 
Ardea nevia Bopp. Tabl. Pl. Enl. 1783, 56. 
Nycticorax nycticorax nevius ZELEDON, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 
1885, 113. 
[B 495, C 458, R 495, C 664.] 
Geroc. Dist.— America, from Ontario and Manitoba southward 
to the Falkland Islands, including part of the West Indies. 
SuBGENuS NYCTANASSA STEJNEGER. 
Nyctanassa STEN. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. X. 1887, 295. . Type, 
Ardea violacea LINN. 
208. Nycticorax violaceus (LINN.). 
Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 
Ardea violacea LINN. §. N. ed. to, I. 1758, 143. 
Nycticorax violacea Vicors, Zool. Journ. III. 1827, 446. 
[B 496, C 459, R 496, C 665. ] 
Groc. Dist.— Tropical and warm temperate North America, from 
the Carolinas, the lower Ohio Valley and Lower California, south to 
Brazil ; casually north to Massachusetts and Colorado. 
