388 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Ardea tayasu-guira, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XIV. p. 437 (1817: 



ex Azara j 1 ). 

 Ardea maculata (nee Gm.), Vieill. Enc. Meth. III. p. 1129 (1823: ex 



Azara ?). 

 Nycticorax gardeni (pt.) Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 85 (1844: 



Falkland Islands : Str. Magellan). 

 Nycticorax americana, Tsch. & Cab. (nee Bonap.) in Faun. Peru, Orn. pp. 



50, 297 (1845-46); Hartl. Ind. Azara, pp. 22, 23 (1847); Gould, P. 



Z. S. 1859, p. 96 (Falkland Islands). 

 Nycticorax ncevius Gray (nee Bodd.), Gen. B. III. p. 558, pt. (1847) ; Des 



Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 412 (1847); Leybold, Excurs. 



Pampas Argentinas, p. 62 (1873) ; Philippi, Ornis. IV. p. 159 (1888: 



Empexa, Tarapaca). 

 Nycticorax obscums, Bp. (nee Licht), Consp. Av. II. p. 141 pt. (1855: 



Patagonia: Falkland Islands); Scl. Ibis, 1861, p. 312 (Falkland 



Islands); id. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 73 (Falkland Islands); id. & Salv. 



Ibis, 1869, p. 284 (Tyssen Isl., Falkland Isl.); Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 



40 (Chupat Valley), p. 189 (Buenos Aires, resident), 1878, p. 63 



(Buenos Aires, Nov. Dec.), p. 399 (Sengel) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 436 (Falkland Islands); Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 310 (eggs); 



Gibson, Ibis, 1880, pp. 156, 158 (Cape San Antonio, Buenos Aires, 



resident & breeds) ; Scl. & Salv. Voy. Chall. II. Birds, p. 106 pt. 



(1880) ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 624 (Pacheco, Buenos Aires ; Sauce 



Redondo, Salta) ; Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de Zamora) ; 



Scl. & Huds. Argent. Orn. II. p. 105 (1889); Holland, Ibis, 1890, 



p. 425; Scl. P. Z. S. 1891, p. i36(Sacaya, Tarapaca); Holland, Ibis, 



1892, p. 205 (Estancia Espartilla, fairly common Sept to Jan., breeds) ; 



Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 679 pt. (1898 : Rio de los Patos. 



S. Patagonia). 

 Nycticorax gardeni, Scl. (nee Gm.), P. Z. S. 1860, p. 386 (Berkeley 



Sound); Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 157 (Falkland Islands); Doering, 



Expl. al Rio Negro, Zool. Aves, p. 52 (1881-82); Barrows, Auk, I. 



p. 271 (1884: lower Uruguay, abundant resident); Carabajal, La 



Patagonia, Part II. p. 272 (1900). 

 Ardea gardeni, Burm. (nee Gm.), J. f. O. 1860, p. 264; id. La Plata Reise, 



II. p. 508 (1861: Rio Parana); C. Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos 



Aires, III. Part X. p. 247 (1888: northern Patagonia). 



