NTOTICOEAX. 173 



Nyctiardea navia, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 311'°. 



Nycticorax griseus neevius, Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 406 " ; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. 



Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 55 ^^ 

 Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius, Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 113"; An. Mus. Nac. Costa 



Rica, i. p. 131 (1887) " ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 170 " ; Richm. op. cit. xvi. 



p. 528"; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 74". 

 Ardea gardeni, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 645 '". 

 Nycticorax gardeni, Sol. P. Z. S. 1857, pp. 206'% 230'° ; 1859, p. 369 ''; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 63"; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 227"; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 313"; Duges, La Nat. i. 



p. 142"; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 438'"; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 185", 327 ='. 

 Nycticorax europcBus, Steph. iu Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 609 '°. 

 Nycticorax americarms, Bp. Comp. List Birds Eur. & N. Amer. p. 48 '° ; v. Frautz. J. f . Orn. 1869, 



p. 376 '\ 



Margaritaceo-oinereus ; dorsi plumis et scapularibus elongatis nigris, saturate viridi nitentibus ; alis eaudaque 

 pulchre cinereis ; pileo eristato, viridescenti-nigro, jiQcha plumis duabus albis elongatis ornata ; fronte 

 basali et linea interrupta superciliari albis ; facie laterali et corpore subtus toto albis, pulchre lilascenti- 

 ciuereo lavatis : rostro Isete viridi, culmine et mandibulae apice nigrioantibus ; loris et regione oculari 

 nudis laete viridibus; pedibus flavicanti-viridibus ; iride coccinea. Long, tota circa 19'0, alae 12'25, 

 caudsB 4"5, culm. 2'75, tarsi 3*1. (Deser. maris adulti ex Cohan, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



§ mari similis, sed plumis nuchalihus albis brevioribus. Long, tota circa 20-0, alae 12-45. (Descr. ferainsB 

 adultae ex Brownsville, Texas. Mus. nostr.) 



Juv. Brunneus, notaei plumis medialiter alhicanti-brunneo lineatis vel maculis triquetris albis terminatis ; facie 

 laterali et corpore suhtus toto albidis, vix brunneo tinetis ; plumis hrunneo marginatis, quasi striolatis. 



Hab. North Ameeica, from Southern Canada throughout the United States '^''. — 

 Mexico, Mazatlan {Grayson i"), Presidio de Mazatlan {Forrer ^), Rio de Coahuayana 

 {Xantus^^ Guanajuato, Guadalajara [Buges^^), Acapulco (Markham^^^), Valley 

 of Mexico (Herrera^'' ^^, Sumichrast% Tampico, Aguas Calientes, Colotlan, 

 Jalisco (Eichardson ^), Chiautla, Puebla {Ferrari-Perez ^°), Jalapa {De Oca ^i, 

 Salle 1^, Ferrari-Perez ^^), Cateman * {JBoucard ^^), Oaxaca ^, Orizaba, Tehuantepec 

 {Sumichrast ^ ^) ; Guatemala {Skinner ^^), Choctum {0. S.^), Lake of Peten 

 {Leyland ^^) ; Hondueas, Omoa {Leyland ^^), Fonseca Bay ( Taylor 2*) ; Nioaeagtja, 

 Eio Frio {Eichmond'^^); Costa Eica {v. Frantzius^^), San Jose {Zeledon ^^), 

 La Palma, Gulf of Nicoya {Nutting^'^), Liberia {Zeledon ^^). — Colombia^; Ecuadoe^; 

 Teinidad^2. Amazonia 3; West Indies^. — Temperate Etjeope and the geeatee 



PAET OF AfEICA AND AsiA. 



Although the American birds are slightly larger than those from the Old World, we 

 see no valid reason for supposing that the Night-Herons of the two hemispheres are 

 specifically different. American ornithologists recognize only one species of Nycticorax 

 throughout the whole of the Neotropical Region, whereas Dr. Bowdler Sharpe believes 

 that there are three well-characterized races, two of which are found in South America, 

 from Peru to the Straits of Magellan and the Falkland Islands," 



* Perhaps a misprint for Catemaco, Vera Cruz. 



