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Demigretta sacra matook (Vieillot). New Zealand Blue 

 Heron. 

 Ardea matook Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vol. xiv. 

 1817, p. 416 : New Zealand. 



Synonym : — 



Deiniegretta sacra Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 198. [The type-locality 

 of Ardea sacra Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 640, is Tahiti.] 



Range : — New Zealand (breeding). 



Genus NYCTICORAX. 



Nycticorax Forster, Synopt. Catal. Brit. Birds^ 1817, 

 p. 59. 



Type (by monotypy) : N. nycticorax (Linne). 



Nycticorax caledonicus australasise (Vieillot). Australian 

 Night Heron. 

 Ardea australasice Vieillot, Tabl. Encycl. Method., Oru. 

 vol. iii. 1823, p. 1130 : New South Wales. 



Synonyms : — 



Ardea maculafa (not Boddaert) Latham, Suppl. Index Ornith. 

 1800, p. Ixiv. : New South Wales. 



Ardea novcehollandice (not Latham) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat. vol. xiv. 1817, p. 43G : New South Wales. 



Nycticorax caledojiicus Buller, Suppl. vol. i. p. 197. [The type- 

 locality of Ardea caledotiica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1789, p. 026, is 

 New Caledonia.] 



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

 rences ; it is more probable that these were stragglers 

 from Australia than from New Caledonia, but it should 

 be noted that Australian birds were liberated at Wellington 

 in 1852 : cf. Buller^ Suppl. loc. cit. The records of the 

 specimens preserved should be criticised) ; extralimital. 



Genus IXOBRYCHUS. 



Ixobrychus Billberg, Synops. Faun. Scand. vol. i. pt. ii. 

 Aves, 1828, p. 166. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : /. minuius (Linne). 



