238 VISCOUNT WALDBN ON THE BIEDS 



BOTAURIN^. 



Nycticorax, Stephens. 



198. * Nycticorax MANiLLENSis. 



Nycticorax manillensis , Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98, " neighbourhood of Manilla;" Fraser, Zool. 

 Typica, pi. 66 ; Bp. Consp. ii. p. 140, " Philippines ;" v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, " Isl. of 

 Samar;" Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas,^rc?e«,p. 60, "Lufon;" G. R. Gray, Hand-List, no. 10173, 

 " Philippines." 

 "Ardea caledonica, Forster," Meyen, Nov. Ac. C. L.C. Nat. Cur. xvi. suppl. prim. p. 103, "Ma- 

 nilla," nee Forster; v. Martens, torn. cit. no. 158. 

 Hah. Manilla {Lindsay). 



Professor Schlegel {I. c.) unites Nycticorax crassirostris, Vigors (Voy. Blossom, Zool. 

 p. 27, " Bonin isl." \'&o'd),vf\th.N. manillensis. According to Vigors, it only differs 

 from N. caledonicus in the shape of the bill and its colour, and in the wing being 

 an inch shorter. "With N. manillensis he makes no comparison. This last does appear 

 to differ from N. caledonicus ; but as the type of N. crassirostris is no longer contained 

 in the British Museum, although enumerated in the Hand-list as being extant, I am 

 unable to confirm Professor Schlegel's opinion. 



199. Nycticorax griseus. 



Ardea grisea, Linn. S. N. 1. p. 239, av. juv. (1766). 



nycticorax, Linn. torn. cit. p. 235 ; Meyen, Nov. Act. Ac. C. L.C. Nat. Cm-, xvi. suppl. prim. 



p. 104, "Manilla;" v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, "Taalsee." 



Hab. Manilla {Meyen). 



Goesachius, Bonaparte. 



200. GORSACHIUS MELANOLOPHUS. 

 Ardea melanolopha, Raffles, Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 326, adult, " Sumatra " (1821) ; Layard, Ann. & 



Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, 2nd ser. vol. xiv. p. 114, "Ceylon;" Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 38; op. cit. 



1867, pp. 173, 309 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 413 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 478, 



" Ceylon." 

 Nycticorax limnophilax, Temm. PI. Col. 581,/MW., "Java" (1835); Bp. Consp. ii. p. 156; Schlegel, 



Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardete, p. 55, " Philippines, Bangka, Java." 

 Gorsachius goisagi, Temm., Bp. Consp. ii. p. 138, no. 122 (at/wft, Mus. Paris) ; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 358 ; op. cit. 1866, pp. 123, 403. 

 Tigrisonia limnicola, Reichenb. Syat. Av. p. 16 (1852). 



typus, Pucheran, Bp. I. c. 



Ardea {Botaiirus) philippensis, Gm., apud v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 155 {nee Gm.). 



