364 Fourteenth Supplement to the A. O. U, Check-List. ne 
Hermann is considered not to have used the term in a generic 
sense. (Cj. Stonr, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 195; ALLEN, Bull. Am. 
Mis: IN. EL. Xx 19072 311. 
GeNus ARDETTA Gray. ‘This becomes 
GENUS IXOBRYCHUS BI.L.Bera. 
Ixobrychus BILLBERG, Syn. Faune Scand., I, ii, 1828, 166. 
Type, Ardea minuta Linnzxus. (Cf. Stonn, Auk, XXIV, 
1907, 192; Auten, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXIV, 1908, 36.) 
Nos. 191 and 191.1 of the Check-List thus become 
191.  Ixobrychus exilis (GMELIN). 
191.1 Ixobrychus neoxenus (Cory). 
to 
GeNus NYCTICORAX SrepHens. Authority is changed 
GENus NYCTICORAX ‘I’. Forster. 
Nycticorax Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. 
Type, Nycticorax infaustus ForstER = Ardea nycticorax 
Linnzus. (C7. Stone, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 195.) 
207. Aramus giganteus (BONAPARTE). An earlier name is found 
in 
207. Aramus vociferus (LATHAM). 
Numenius vocijerus LATHAM, Suppl. Ind. Orn., 1801, Ixv. 
(RicHMonpb, Ms.) 
SuBGENUS COTURNICOPS Bonaparte. Becomes 
GENUS COTURNICOPS Bonaparte. 
Coturnicops BONAPARTE, Compt. Rend., XLII, 1856, 599. 
Type, Fulica noveboracensis GMELIN. 
No. 215 thus becomes 
215. Coturnicops noveboracensis (GMELIN). 
