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HA&MATOPODID.&——continued. 
America. 
Greenland (Newton.) 
Hematopus ostralequs. 
Has been three times taken in Greenland. 
(Newton.) 
Hematopus palliatus * Temm. (American 
Oyster Catcher.) 
Atlantic coasts of North America, and 
possibly the Pacifie also. 
Florida. 
Very closely resembles the European 
bird. (Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Europe. 
West Africa, and down the West coast 
to the Cape. The Azores, Canaries, 
Madeira. 
Through Asia, chiefly on the coast, 
though Jerdon has obtained it two 
hundred miles inland, in the Deccan. 
Java, New Guinea, and neighbouring 
islands, Australia, Tasmania, and New 
Zealand. (Dresser.) 
Hematopus _ ostralegus.* 
(Oyster Catcher.) 
The whole Palearctic region, south to 
(L.) Blyth 
Ceylon. North Africa, as far as 
Mozambique. (Dresser.) 
ARDEID&. 
Ardea cinerea. 
In Greenland one is said to have been 
seen in August, 1765, and one found 
dead in 1856 (Newton, Arct. Exp. 
Inst.) It is represented in North 
America by Ardea herodias. 
Nycticorax gardeni.* Gm. (American 
Night heron.) 
Found generally throughout the United 
States. Larger than N. griseus, bill 
stouter, young birds have the quills 
with an avical white spot, not found 
in the European. (Baird, Cassin, and 
Lawrence, p. 678.) 
Found from Mexico and Central America 
to Brazil. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Botaurus lentiginosus.* Mout. (American 
Bittern.) 
The entire Continent of North America. 
(Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence.) Found 
once in Greenland in 1869. (Newton.) 
Mexico, Central America, and Guate- 
mala. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Ardea cinerea.* Linn. (Common heron.) 
Occurs in Scandinavia in summer; ac- 
cidental as far north as the Faroe Is- 
lands. Found in Russia and Siberia, 
and southward over Europe, being 
most abundant in Holland. Occurs in 
North Africa and Madeira, and is 
said to visit the Cape of Good Hope. 
India, Japan, and according to Dr. 
Horsfield in Java. (Yarrell.) 
Nycticoraz griseus.* Linn. (Night heron.) 
Most common in the warmer parts of 
the Old World. Found in the British 
Isles, France, Spain, Portugal, Pro- 
vence and Italy. Erzeroom and (by 
Menetries) near the Caspian Sea. 
Also at the Cape of Good Hope, India, 
China, and Japan. (Yarrell.) 
Australia. (Gray. ) 
Botaurus lentiginosus. 
Several have been taken in England and 
Scotland, and three in Ireland, viz., 
one near Armagh, 12 Nov., 1845, 
Thomp. Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds) Vol. 
ii, p. 168. One near Dundalk, 18 
Nov., 1868, Lord Clermont, Zool. 
1869, p. 1517. One at Carlisle, Gal- 
way, 31 Oct., 1870, Blake-Knox, 
Zool. 1870, p. 2408. It has also oc- 
curred near Leipsic. (Degland and 
Gerbe, Vol. ii., p. 310. 
