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RancGe.— Arid region of southwestern United States. Breeds from north- 
ern California south to northern Lower California, southern Arizona, and 
Michoacan, Mexico; winters from southern California to southern Mexico. 
GENUS NYCTICORAX T. Forster. 
Nycticoraz Forster, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by 
monotypy, Nycticorax infaustus ForsteER = Ardea nycticorar Lin- 
NUS. 
Nycticorax nycticorax (LINN £Us). 
RancE.— Warmer parts of Eastern and Western hemispheres. 
a. ([Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax. Extralimital.] 
b. Nycticorax nycticorax névius (BopparrT). Black-crowned Night Heron. 
[202.] 
Ardea nevia BopparErt, Table Pl. Enl., 1783, 56. (Cayenne.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Breeds from northern Oregon, 
southern Wyoming, southern Manitoba, northern Quebec, and Nova Scotia 
south to Patagonia; winters from northern California and Gulf States south- 
ward; casual in winter north to Massachusetts and southern Illinois. 
GENUS NYCTANASSA STEJNEGER. 
Nyctanassa STEIJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 295 (note). 
Type, by orig. desig., Ardea violacea LINN&XUS. 
Nyctandssa violacea (LINN&UsS). Yellow-crowned Night Heron. [203.] 
Ardea violacea LinN=Us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Carolina.) 
RancE.— Warm temperate and tropical America. Breeds from 
southern Lower California, Kansas, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, 
and South Carolina south to Brazil and Peru; casual north to Colo- 
rado, Ontario, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nova Scotia; winters from 
southern Lower California and southern Florida southward. 
