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RANGE. 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. 



Nycticorax FORSTER, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by 

 monotypy, Nycticorax infaustus FORSTER = Ardea nycticorax LIN- 

 NAEUS. 



Nycticorax nycticorax (LINNAEUS). 

 RANGE. Warmer parts of Eastern and Western hemispheres. 



a. [Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax. Extralimital.] 



b. Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (BODDAERT). Black-crowned Night Heron. 



[202.] 



Ardea ncevia BODDAERT, Table PL Enl., 1783, 56. (Cayenne.) 



RANGB. 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 STEJNEGER, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 295 (note). 

 Type, by orig. desig., Ardea violacea LINKLEUS. 



Nyctanassa violacea(LiNN^us). Yellow-crowned Night Heron. [203.] 



Ardea violacea LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. 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. 



