496 BRITISH BIRDS. 



NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX. 

 NIGHT-HERON. 



(PLATE 38.) 



Ardea grisea, i 



Ardea mexicana cristata, I Briss. Orn. v. pp. 411, 412, 462 (1760). 



Ardea botaurus neevius, I 



Ardea nycticorax, Sriss. Orn. v. p. 493, pi. xxxix. (1760) ; Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 235 

 (1766) ; et auctorum plurimorum Scopoli, Latham, Gmelin, (Bonaparte), 

 Jenyns, Vieittot, Waaler, Boie, Temminck fy Schlegel, Dealand 8f Gerbe, Lichten- 

 stein, Finsch, Heuglin, David fy Oustalet, &c. 



A Tr] pa IrTrfl IfW^fl, J 



[ Omel Nov. Comm. Petrop. xv. pp. 452, 456 (1771). 

 Ardea ferruginea, | 



Ardea cyanocephala, Molina, Sagg. Star. Natural. Chili, p. 344 (1782). 



Ardea nsevia (Sriss.), Sodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 56. no. 939 (1783). 



Ardea jamaicensis, ~1 



Ardea hoacth, I 64g 



Ardea gardeni, 



Ardea maculata, J 



Nycticorax infaustus, Forst. Syn. Cat. Sr. B. p. 69 (1817). 



Nycticorax europseus, Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 609 (1819). 



Ardea sexsetacea, 



Ardea tayazaguii, 



Nycticorax gardenii (Gmel.), Jardine, Wils. Am. Orn. iii. p. 5 (1832). 



Nycticorax iSpes, f Hem P r ' * Eh '~ ^ Ph ^ A > fol - m C 1833 )' 



Ardea discors, Nutt. Man. Orn. U. S. ii. p. 54 (1834). 



Nyctiardea europsea (Steph.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 355 (1837). 



Nycticorax americanus, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 48 (1838). 



Ardea (Scotaeus) nycticorax (Briss.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. Ixxx (1840). 



Nycticorax ardeola, Temni. Man. a" Orn. iv. p. 384 (1840). 



Nycterodius nycticorax (Briss.), Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 127 (1842). 



Nycticorax griseus (Briss.), I 



,/ 4 /(( Gray, Gen. B. m. p. 558 (1847). 



Nycticorax nsevius (Brtss.), \ 



Scotaeus nycticorax (Briss.), ) __ 7 -, TT , 



^ " I Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 59 (1856). 



Scotaeus guttatus, I 



Nyctiardea gardeni (Gmel.), Baird, B. N. Am. p. 678 (1858). 



Nycticorax aegyptius (Hasselq.), Gurney, Anderss. B. of Damara Ld. p. 293 (1872). 



Nyctiardea nycticorax (Briss.), Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 413. 



The Night-Heron was first recorded as a British bird by Latham (Gen. 

 Syn. iii. p. 53), who mentions a male in the Leverian Museum, which 

 was shot not many miles from London in May 1782. Since then 

 it has been obtained in our islands at least fifty times. Most of these 

 occurrences were in the southern and eastern counties ; but it has 



