74 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus NYCTICORAX Stephens. 



Subgenus NYCTICORAX. 



Nycticorax Steph. Gen. Zool. XL ii. 1819, 608. Type, Ardea 

 nycticorax Linn. 



202. Nycticorax nycticorax naevius (Bodd.). 



Black-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea ncevia Bodd. Tab!. PI. Enl. 1783, 56. 

 Nycticorax nycticorax «^7;^W Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIIL 

 1885, 113. 



[B 495, C 458, R 495, C 664.] 

 Geog. Dist. — America, from Ontario and Manitoba southward 

 to the Falkland Islands, including part of the West Indies. 



Subgenus NYCTANASSA Stejneger. 



Nycta?mssa Stejn. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. X. 1887, 295. Type, 

 Ardea violacea Linn. 



203. Nycticorax violaceus (Linn.). 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea violacea Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 143, 

 Nycticorax violacea Vigors, Zool. Journ. III. 1827, 446. 



[B 496, C 459, R 496, C 665.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Tropical and warm temperate North America, from 

 the Carolinas, the lower Ohio Valley and Lower California, south to 

 Brazil ; casually north to Massachusetts and Colorado. 



