Order ARDEIFOJRMES 
Family AMDEIDM. 
No. 242. 
NYCTICOKAX CALEDONICUS HILLI. 
NIGHT-HERON. 
(Plate 193.)* 
Nycticoeax caledonictjs HILLI Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 233, 1912 ; 
Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia. 
Ardea maculata (not Gmelin) Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. Ixiv., 1801 (New South 
Wales). 
Nycticorax caledonicus (not Gmelin) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 63, 1848 ; Sturt, 
Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 52, 1849 ; Propsting, Pap. and Proc. 
Roy. Soc. Van Diemen Land, Vol. II., p. 149, 1852 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. II., p. 311, 1865 ; BuUer, Birds New Zeal., p. 233, 1873 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 342 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 55, 1882 ; 
id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1886 ; Buller, Birds New Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., 
p. 139, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 320, 1890 ; id., Rep. Horn Sci. 
Exp., Zool., p. 105, 1896 ; Keartland, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXII., 
p. 188, 1898 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 158, 1898 (pars) ; 
Hall, Eey Birds Austr., p. 99, 1899 ; Robinson and Laverock, Ibis 1900, p. 652 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 962, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. I., 
p. 146, 1902 ; HaU, ib., Vol. II., p. 67, 1902 ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 210, 1904 ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 204, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 99, 190^ ; 
Berney, Emu, Vol. VI., p. 115, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 33, 1908 ; 
Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 464 ; id., ib. 1909, p. 615 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 4, 
1909 ; id., ib., p. 67 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 175 ; Mathews, Emu, Vol. X., 
p. 105, 1910 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 195, 1910 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. 
Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 33, 1913. 
Nycticorax caledonicus australasim (not VieiUot) Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 232, 
1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 83, 1913 ; id.. Ibis 1914, p. 106. 
Nycticorax caledonicus hilli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 233, 1912 (Parry’s Creek). 
Disteibhtion. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-chestnut, including the sides of the neck, 
hind-neck, entire back, wings, and tail, paler and inclining to whitish on the 
* The Plate is lettered Nycticorax ausiralasice. 
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