94 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Suborder HERODII. Herons, Egrets, Bitterns, 



ETC. 



Family ARDEIDiE. Herons, Bitterns, etc. 



Subfamily BOTAURIN^. Bitterns. 



Genus BOTAURUS Stephens. 



Botaurus Stephens, General Zoology, XI, Pt. ii, 1819, 592. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Ardea stellaris Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Botauras lentiginosus (Montagu). Bittern. [190.] 



Ardea lentiginosa Montagu, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 1813, text and plate. 

 (Piddletown, Dorsetshire, England.) 



Range. — North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 

 southern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, southern Ungava, and New- 

 foundland south to southern California, northern Arizona, Kansas, 

 the Ohio Valley, and North Carolina, and less frequently in southern 

 United States; winters from California, Arizona, southern Texas, 

 the Ohio Valley, and Virginia south to Cuba and Guatemala, and 

 casually to the Bahamas, Porto Rico, Jamaica, and Great Britain. 



Genus IXOBRYCHUS Billberg. 



Ixdbrychus Billberg, Syn. Faunse Scand., I, ii, 1828, 166. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Ardea minuta Linn^us (Stone, 1907). 



Ixobrychus exilis (Gmelin). Least Bittern. [191.] 



Ardea exilis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 645. (Jamaica.) 



Range. — Temperate North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds from southern Oregon, southern Saskatchewan, southern 

 Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to the West 

 Indies and Brazil; winters from Florida and Gulf of Mexico south- 

 ward. 



