404- Messrs. G. M. Mathews and Tom Iredale : 



Geuus IlERODIAS. 



Herodias Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 559. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : H. e<jretta (Gnielin). 



~p' Herodias alba maoriana, subsp. n. New Zealand Great 

 White Heron. 



Synonym : — 



Herodias timoriensis Buller, Suppl. vol, i. p. 194. [The type- 

 locality of Ardea alba Linn^, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 144, 

 is Sweden, aud that of A. timoriensis Lessou, Traite d'Orii. 1831, 

 p. 575, is Timor.] 



Range : — New Zealand ; only known breeding places in 

 South Island. 



Note : — H. a. maoriajia is much larger than H. a. syrmato- 

 phora Gould (Birds Austr. vol. vi. pi. 56, 1846 : New South 

 Wales), the nearest breeding subspecies of H. alba. Longest 

 Aviug-measurement in H. a. syritiatojiJiora, 886 mm. ; in 

 H. a. Diaoriana, 425 mm. Type in the British Museum. 



Geuus NOTOPIIOVX. 



Notophoyx Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Oru. Club, vol. v. 1895, 

 pp. xi, xiii. 



Type (by original designation) : N. novcehollandice 

 (Latham) . 



Notophoyx novaehollaiidiae (Latham). White-fronted Heron. 

 Ardea 7iov(Bhollandi(e Latham, Index Ornith. vol. ii. 1790, 

 p. 701 : New South Wales. 



Synonym : — 



Notophoyx novcehollandice Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 196. 

 Range : — New Zealand ; extralimital. 



Genus DEMIGRETTA. 



Bemigretta Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xv. 1846, 

 p. 372. 



Type (by monotypy) : D, conculor Blyth. 



