138 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



202. Nycticorax nycticoraz neevius (Bodd.). 



Black- crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea ncevia Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, 56. 



Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 

 1885, 113. 



[B 495, C 458, R 495, C 664.] 



Hab. America, from the British Possessions southward to the Falk- 

 land Islands, including part of the West Indies. 



/ , ^.^ -.mu. . Subgenus NYCTHEB.ODIUS Reichenbach. 



Nyctherodius Reich. Syst. Av. 1852, p. xvi. Type, Ardea violacea 

 Linn. 



203. Nycticorax violaceiis (Linn.). 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea violacea Linn, S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 143. 

 Nycticorax violacea Vigors, Zool. Journ. III. 1827, 446. 



[B 496, C 459, R 496, C 665.] 



Hab. Warm-temperate Eastern North America, from the Carolinas 

 and the Lower Ohio Valley south to Brazil j casually north to Massa- 

 chusetts and west to Colorado. 



Order PALUDICOL^ Cranes, Rails, etc. 



Suborder GRUES. Cranes. 



Family GRUID^. Cranes. 



Genus GRUS Pallas. 

 Grus Pall. Misc. Zool. 1766, (3^. Type, Ardea grus Linn. 



