OEDEE HEE0DI0NE8. 99 



Range. — Arid region of southwestern United States. Breeds from north- 

 ern California south to northern Lower California, southern Arizona, and 

 Michoacan, Mexico; winters from southern California to southern Mexico. 



Genus NYCTICORAX T. Forstee. 



Nyctieorax Foester, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by 

 monotypy, Nyctieorax infaustus Forsteb = Ardea nydicorax Lw- 



N.EUS. 



Nyctieorax nyctieorax (Linn^us). 

 Range. — Warmer parts of Eastern and Western hemispheres. 



a. [Nyctieorax nyctieorax nyctieorax. Extralimital.] 



h. Nyctieorax nyctieorax neevius (Boddaert). Black-crowned Night Heron. 

 [202.] 



Ardea noBvia Boddaekt, Table PI. Enl., 1783, 56. (Cayenne.) 



Ranqb. — North and South America. Breeds from northern Oregon, 

 southern Wyoming, southern Manitoba, northern Quebec, and Nova Scotia 

 south to Patagonia; winters from northern California and Gulf States south- 

 ward; casual in winter north to Massachusetts and southern Illinois. 



Genus N7CTANASSA Stejneger. 



Nyctanassa Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 295 (note). 

 Type, by orig. desig., Ardea violacea Linn^tjs. 



Nyctanassa violacea (Linn ^us). Yellow-crowned Night Heron. [203.] 

 Ardea violacea Linnjbus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Warm temperate and tropical America. Breeds from 

 southern Lower California, Kansas, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, 

 and South Carolina south to Brazil and Peru; casual north to Colo- 

 rado, Ontario, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nova Scotia; winters from 

 southern Lower California and southern Florida southward. 



