74 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus N7CTICORAX Stephens. 



Subgenus NYCTICORAX. 



Nydicorax Steph. Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 1819, 608. Type, Ardea 

 nycticorax Linn. 



202. Nycticorax nycticorax naevins (Bodd.). 



Black-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea navia Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, 56. 

 Nycticorax nycticorax ncRvius Zeledon, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 

 1885, 113. 



[B 495, C 458, R 495, C 664.] 



Geog. Dist. — America, from Ontario and Manitoba southward 

 to the Falkland Islands, including part of the West Indies. 



Subgenus NYCTANASSA Stejneger. 



Nyctanassa Stejn. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. X. 1887, 295. Type, 

 Ardea violacea Linn. 



203. Nycticorax violaceus (Linn.). 



YeUo^v-crowned Night Heron. 



Ardea violacea Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 143. 

 Nycticorax violacea Yico^s,Zoo\. Journ. III. 1827, 446. 



[B 496, C 459, R 496, C 665.J 

 Geog. Dist. — Tropical and warm temperate North America, from 

 the Carolinas, the lower Ohio Valley and Lower California, south to 

 Brazil ; casually north to Massachusetts and Colorado. 



