396 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Syst. Av. p. 189, Ardea, Ep. 35 (1827); Neuwied, Beitr. Naturg. 



Bras. IV. p. 623 (1833): Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 23 (1847); Cab. in 



Schomb. Reis. Guian. III. p. 753 (1848); Burm. Th. Bras. III. p. 41 1 



(1856: Lower Parahyba); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardea, p. 42 (1863: 



Surinam; Caracas); Finsch. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 589 (Trinidad); Pezl. 



Orn. Bras. p. 301 (1871 : Sapitiba ; Matto Grosso). 

 Egretta scapularis, Swains, An. in Menag. p. 333 (1837). 

 Ardea gnsea, Gray, Gen. Bds. III. p. 556 (1847); Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 



421 (1866); Gray, Hand-List Bds. III. p. 31, no. 10156 (1871). 

 Butorides scapularis, Bonap. Consp. II. p. 128 {1855); Scl. & Salv. P. 



Z. S. 1866, p. 199 (Ucayali). 

 Butorides grisea, Cass, Pro. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci. i860, p. 19 (Cartagena). 

 Butorides cyamirus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 145 (Conchitas); 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 384 (Lake Paturica); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 125 (1873); Lee, Ibis, 1873, p. 137 (Argentine Rep.); 



Durnf. Ibis, 1878, p. 62 (Buenos Aires); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, 



p. 542 (Medellin); Salv. & Godm. Ibis, 1879, p. 206 (Colombia); 



W. A. Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 355 (Recife, breeding); Tacz. Orn. 



Perou, III. p. 397 (1884); Barrows, Auk, I. p. 271 (1884 : Concepcion, 



breeding); Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de Zamora); Scl. 



& Hudson, Argent. Orn. II. p. loi (1889); Holland, Ibis, 1892, p. 



205; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. V. p. 150 (1893: Matto 



Grosso). 

 Butorides scapulatus (lapsu), Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 305 (Uca- 

 yali R.; Santa Cruz). 

 Butorides viresceus (lapsu), Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 746 (Santa Lucia, Peru). 

 Butorides striata, Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. Water-Birds North America, 



I. p. 50, note (1884); Berl. & Ihering, Zeitschr. Ges. Orn. II. p. 78 



(1885: Taquara); Berl. J. f. O. 1889, p. 318 (Ucayali); Berl. J. f. O. 



1892, p. 104; Peters, J. f. O. 1892, p. 120 (Curasao); Sharpe, Bull. 



Brit. Orn. Club, III. p. xvii (1894); id. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XVII. 



p. 175 (1898); id. Hand-List Bds. I. p. 199 (1899) ; Gates, Cat. Birds' 



Eggs Brit. Mus. II. p. 126 (1902). 

 Ocniscus striatus, Heine & Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 308 (1890). 



General description. 



Size. — Total length, about 15.5 inches. 



