364 Fourteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-List. [f^^ 



Hermann is considered not to have used the term in a generic 

 sense. (C/. Stone, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 195; Allen, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., XXIII, 1907, 311. 



Genus ARDETTA Gray. This becomes 



Genus IXOBRYCHUS Billberg. 



Ixohrychus Billberg, Syn. Faunae Scand., I, ii, 1828, 106. 

 Type, Ardea viinuta Linn.eus. {Cj. Stone, Auk, XXIV, 

 1907, 192; Allen, 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). 



Genus NYCTICORAX Stephens. Authority is changed to 



Genus NYCTICORAX T. Forster. 



iV^di'coraa; ■ FoRSTER, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. 

 T\'pe, Nycticorax infaustus Forster = Ardea nycticorax 

 LiNN,Eus. {Cj. Stone, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 195.) 



207. Aramus giganteus (Bonaparte). An earlier name is foimd 

 in 



207. Aramus vociferus (Latham). 



Numenius vociferus Latha:m, Suppl. Ind. Orn., 1801, Ixv. 

 (Richmond, MS.) 



Subgenus COTURNICOPS Bonaparte. Becomes 



Genus COTURNICOPS Bonaparte. 



Cotumicops Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLIII, 1856, 599. 

 T\'pe, Fiilica novehoracensis Gmelin. 



No. 215 thus becomes 

 215. Cotumicops noveboracensis (Gmelin). 



