94 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
SuporDER HERODII. Herons, Ecrets, BITTerns, 
ETC. 
Famity ARDEIDZ. Herons, BITTERNS, ETC. 
SuBFAMILY BOTAURINZ. Birrerns. 
GENUS BOTAURUS STEPHENS. 
Botaurus STEPHENS, General Zoology, XI, Pt. ii, 1819, 592. Type, 
by subs. desig., Ardea stellaris LINN=Us (Gray, 1840). 
Botatrus lentigindsus (Montacu). Bittern. [190.] 
Ardea lentiginosa Montaau, Suppl. Orn. Dict., 1813, text and plate. 
(Piddletown, Dorsetshire, England.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 
southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, southern Ungava, and New- 
foundland south to southern California, northern Arizona, Kansas, 
the Ohio Valley, and North Carolina, and less frequently in southern 
United States; winters from California, Arizona, southern Texas, 
the Ohio Valley, and Virginia south to Cuba and Guatemala, and 
casually to the Bahamas, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and Great Britain. 
GENUS IXOBRYCHUS BI.LuBera. 
Izobrychus BiLLBERG, Syn. Faune Sceand., I, ii, 1828, 166. Type, by 
subs. desig., Ardea minuta Linnmus (Stone, 1907). 
Ixobrychus exilis (GMELIN). Least Bittern. [191.] 
Ardea exilis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 645. (Jamaica.) 
RanGE.— Temperate North America and northern South America. 
Breeds from southern Oregon, southern Saskatchewan, southern 
Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to the West 
Indies and Brazil; winters from Florida and Gulf of Mexico south- 
ward. 
