NIGHT-HERON. 
corpore subtus albo, supra cinereo ; rostro nigro ; pedibus virescentibus. On 
conserve au Museum d’liistoire naturelle plusieurs BiJioreaux de la Nouvelle 
HoUande.” 
I have italicised the words “ corpore . . . supra cinereo ” in the descrip- 
tion, as these show that Vieillot did not have an Australian bird when he 
drew up his diagnosis, although he wrote the other sentence quoted. 
As a synonym I also quoted ’"’‘Ardea novae-hollandice (not Latham 1790) 
Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., Vol. XIV., p. 436, 1817.” This must also 
be eliminated from the synonymy, as the description there given is the 
same as that quoted above from the later work when VieiUot amended 
the specific name. 
The other synonym, Ardea maculata Latham, is undoubtedly referable 
to this bird, being founded upon a Watling Drawing of a young bird 
from Port Jackson, but the name is pre-occupied by Boddaert 1783. 
The only name available is the one I gave to the North-western bird 
on account of its paler coloration, but which in this work I am uniting to 
the Eastern form. 
