Order ARDEIF0BME8 
No. 237. 
Family ARDEIDM, 
NOTOPHOYX NOV^-HOLLANDIiE. 
WHITE-FRONTED HERON. 
(Plate 188.) 
Ardea NOViE-HOLLANDi^ Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1790 ; New South 
Wales. 
Ardea novce-hollandice Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1790 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 53, 1847 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 299, 1865 ; 
Buller, Birds New Zeal., p. 231, 1873 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, 
p. 341 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., 
Vol. II., p. 134, 1888 ; Legge, Pap. and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1887, p. 97, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 318, 1890 ; French, Viet. Nat., Vol. VIII., 
p. 170, 1892 ; Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., p. 188, 
1898. 
Ardea leucops Wagler, Syst. Av., Ardea, p. 181, sp. 17, 1827 (New South Wales). 
Herodias novce-hollandim Gray, List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. 80, 1844. 
Egretta novce-hollandice Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Zool. Berol., p. 89, 1854. 
Demiegretta novce-hollandice Meyer, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, Vol. XXXI., p. 767, 
1881. 
Notophoyx novce-hollandice Sharpe, BuU. Brit. Ornith. Club, Vol. V., p. xi., 1895 ; 
North, Rep. Horn. Sci. Exp., Zool., p. 105, 1896 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 98, 
1899 ; id.. Insect. Birds Victoria, p. 180, 1900 ; Robinson and Laverock, Ibis 
1900, p. 651 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 954, 1901 ; Littler, 
Emu, Vol. III., p. 216, 1904 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 98, 1906 ; id.. Useful 
Birds South Austr., p. 196, 1907 ; Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 115, 1907 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 32, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 463 ; id., ib. 
1909, p. 615 ; Ford, Emu, Vol. VIIL, p. 31, 1908 ; Mathews, ih., Vol. IX., 
p. 67, 1909 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 192, 1910 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 
1910, p. 176 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., p. 105, 1910 ; Hanscombe, ih., Vol. XI., 
p. 212, 1912 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 23, 1913 ; Mathews 
and Iredale, Ibis 1913, p. 404 ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 82, 1913. 
Notophoyx novce-hollandice novce-hollandice Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 231, 1912. 
Notophoyx novce-hollandice parryi Mathews ih. (Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia). 
Distribution. Australia ; Tasmania. 
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