Order ARDEIFORMES 
No. 243. 
Family ARDEIDM. 
BUTORIDES STRIATA STAGNATILIS. 
LITTLE MANGROVE-BITTERN. 
(Plate 194.) 
Ardetta stagnatilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 221, 1848; Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Ardette stagnatilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1847, p. 221, 1848 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. VI., p. 67, 1848. 
Ardea stagnatilis Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. III., App., p. 25, 1849. 
Butorides stagnatilis Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci. (Paris), Vol. XL., p. 722, 1855; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., p. 183, 1898 (pars) ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 99, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 963, 
1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 99, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 33, 
1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., p. 37, 1913. 
Butorides javanica (not Horsfield) Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 317, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, 
p. 322, 1890 ; Carter, Emu, Vol., III., p. 210, 1904. 
Ardea striata subsp. stagnatilis Reichenow, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1877, p. 254. 
Butorides javanica stagnatilis Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 204, 1905 ; Mathews, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 233, 1912. 
Butorides rogersi (not 1911) Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 55, 1912. 
Butorides striata stagnatilis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 84, 1913; id., Ibis 1914, p. 106. 
Distribution : Northern Territory ; North and Mid-west Australia as far South as 
North West Cape and Sharks Bay. 
Adidt male. General colour above, including the back and wings, greenish-grey ; the 
feathers of the wings margined with white, becoming buffy-white on the 
lesser wing-coverts ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts and quills uniform blue- 
grey, the secondaries more or less edged with white at the tips ; tail uniform 
blue-grey ; ornamental feathers on the back greenish-grey ; head and nuchal 
crest blue-black, as also a streak from the hinder gape over the ear-coverts ; 
throat white ; neck all round and hinder cheeks pale bluish-grey like the sides 
of the breast, becoming paler and inclining to white on the vent and under 
tail-coverts. BiU black, lower half of lower mandible yellow ; iris yellow, bare 
space and lores greenish-yellow ; tarsi and feet oHve-yellow. Total length 
500 mm. ; culmen 71, wing 185, tail 60, tarsus 52. 
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