PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY, 



ARDETTA INVOLUCRIS (Vieillot). 



Garza varia, Azara, Apunt. III. p. 185 (1805). 



Ardea variegata, Vieill. (nee Scop.), N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XIV. p. 424 



(1817: ex Azara). 

 Ardea involucris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. III. p. 1127 (1823); Gray, Handl. 



B. III. p. 31, no. 10152 (1871). 

 Ardea exilis (pt), Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 556 (1847). 

 Ardea erythromelas (pt), Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 23 (1847). 

 Ardetta exilis (nee Gm.), Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 411 



(1847) ; James, New List Chil. B. p. 8 (1892) ; Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. 



Suppl. IV. p. 679 (1898) ; Albert, Contr. Estud. Aves Chil. I. p. 295 



(1899). 



Ardeola humilis Licht. Norriencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 89 (1854: Chili). 

 Ardea erythromelas (nee Vieill.), Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 124 (1865: 



Chili). 

 Ardetta involucris, Scl. &Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 634 (Argentine Republic) ; 



iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 125 (1873); Huds. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 



623-631 (habits); Durnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 162, 1877, p. 189 (Buenos 



Aires), 1878, p. 62 (nest and eggs described); Gibson, Ibis, 1880, 



p. 159 (Cape San Antonio); Barrows, Auk, I. p. 271 (1884: Con- 



cepcion, summer: Carhue, April); Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 470 



(Lomas de Zamora) ; Scl. & Huds. Argent. Orn. II. p. 101, pi. xvi, 



(1889) ; Holland, Ibis, 1890, p. 425, 1892, p. 205 (Estancia Espartilla 

 ' resident, breeds in November) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXVI, 



p. 235 (1898: Patagonia); id. Hand-list B. I. p. 203 (1899). 

 Botaurus erythromelas, Reichen. (nee Vieill.), J. f. O. 1877, p. 244. 

 Ardetta erythrolcema, Heine & Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 308 



(1890: Chili). 



Butorides involucris, Scl. Ibis, 1892, p. 561. 

 Botattrus involucris, Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 128 (1896). 

 Ardetta erythromelas (nee Vieill.), Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 



679 (1898). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Total length, about 13.0 inches. 



Wing, 4.9. 



Culmen, 2.0. 



