A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. 403 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental occurrence : one re- 

 cord, near Timaru^ South Island, May 1902) ; extralimital. 



Family PLA^TALEID^. 

 Genus PLATALEA. 

 Platalea Linne, Syst. Nat. lOtli ed. 1758, p. 139. 

 Type (by monotypy) : P. leucorodia Linne. 



Platalea regia regia Gould. Royal Spoonbill. 



Platalea regia Gould, Synops. Birds Austr, 1838, part iv. 

 App. p. 7 : East Coast of New South Wales. 



Synonyms : — 



Spatherodia melanorlixjnchos Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, 1852, 



p. xvi : New South Wales. 

 Platalea regia Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 193. 



Range : — New Zealand (accidental visitor, three occur- 

 rences : Manawatu, North. Island, April 1875 ; Buller River, 

 South Island, Jan, 1892 ; near Greytown North, North 

 Island, May 1905) ; extralimital. 



Family AUDEIDJE. 

 Genus ARDEA. 

 Ardea Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 141. 

 Type (by subsequent designation) : A. cinerea Linne. 



Ardea cinerea rectirostrls Gould. Australian Grey Heron. 



Ardea rectirostrls Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1843, 

 p. 22 : New South Wales * 



Synonym : — 



Ardea cinerea Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 193. [The type-locality of 

 Ardea cinerea Linn6, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 143, is Sweden, 

 Europe.] 



Range : — New Zealand (accidentalj visitor : one occur- 

 rence at sea near Auckland, North Island, 1898) ; extra- 

 limital. 



* This bird does not appear to have been obtained in New South 

 Wales but came from India. Cf. Stone and Mathews, Austral. Avian 

 Eec. vol. i. 1913, p. 142. 



