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author had in 1841 (List Genera Birds, 2nd Ed., p. 86) 

 selected A. garzetta as type and that the prior designation 

 must be accepted. This usage is, of course, consistent 

 with my oft-expressed principles and its abrogation was 

 entirely due to an oversight, and I thank the reviewer 

 in the Auk for drawing my attention to this matter. 

 The reviewer suggested as an alternative Leucophoyx 

 Sharpe, proposed in 1894, but I find a better substitute 

 in Casmerodius Gloger, Hand. u-Hilfsb., p. 412, 1842, 

 introduced half a century earUer. At the place quoted 

 Gloger independently provided this name for the White 

 Egrets, and mentioned as species A. egreita and 

 A. garzetta. I find no type named until Salvadori 

 (Orn. Papua e Moluc, Vol. III., p. 349, 1882) selected 

 the former. I see no need for rejecting this determina- 

 tion and therefore here use Gloger's name. 



The species will therefore read — 



Casmerodius albus and the subspecies Casmerodius 

 alhus albus and C. a. syrmatophorus. 



p. 83. Nycticorax calbdonicus hilli 

 must replace 

 Nycticorax caledonicus australasice. 

 In working up the Ardeiformes for my Birds of 

 Australia I recognised that Vieillot, under the names 

 of Ardea novcehollandice. and Ardea australasice, had 

 confused the European and Australian Night-Herons 

 and that the description of the adult upon which the 

 names are based appHed to the former, the immature 

 probably correctly being Australian birds. These names 

 are therefore invahd for use for the Australian sub- 

 species and the name selected is the only one available. 



p. 85. IXOBRYCHUS MINUTUS QUEENSLANDICUS, Subsp. n. 



Northern Little Bittern. 



Differs from the type /. m. alisteri from Long Bay, 

 Sydney, in being much more shiny black on the back 

 and head and the wing-coverts much more buff. 



Type, Kedron Brook, Queensland. 



