Order ARDEIFOBMES 
No. 248. 
Family ARDEIDJE. 
DUPETOR FLAVICOLLIS GOULDI. 
YELLOW-NECKED MANGROVE-BITTERN. 
(Plate 198.)* 
Ardetta g^dldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 132, 1855; New South 
Wales. 
Ardetta flavicolUs (not Latham) Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 65, 1848 ; Diggles, 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 106, 1877. 
Botaurus flavicolUs Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 52, 1849. 
Ardetta gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 132, 1855. 
Ardea flavicolUs australis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. V., Ardese, p. 46, 1863. 
Butoroides flavicolUs Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 315, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VII., p. 55, 1882 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 21, 
1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 321, 1890. 
Xanthocnus gouldi Sharpe, Bull, Brit. Ornith. Club., Vol. III., p. xxxvii., 1894. 
Bu'petor gouldi id., ib., Vol. V., p. xiii., 1895 ; id.. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVI., 
p. 249, 1898 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 966, 1901 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 100, 1906 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 33, 1908 ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 175 ; North, Austr. Mus. Sp. Cat., no. 1, Vol. IV., 
p. 42, 1913. 
Ardeiralla flavicolUs gouldi Mathews, Nov. ZooL, Vol. XVIII., p. 234, 1912. 
Bu'petor flavicolUs gouldi Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 85, 1913. 
Distribution. South Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Austraha ; 
South-west Australia. 
Adult male. General colour above blackish-brown, including the back and wings ; 
quills and tail-feathers slate-black ; crown of head black, tinged on the sides 
of the neck with brown ; throat white, with a central line of buff feathers 
tipped with black ; cheeks black, tinged with rufous ; fore-part of ear-coverts 
white, sides of neck ochraceous-buff ; feathers on the fore-neck rufous, black, 
and white, those on the lower fore-neck rufous-brown with white margins ; 
under-surface of the body slate-grey, with a tinge of rufous ; axillaries and 
under wing-coverts dark slate-grey. Bill : upper mandible brown, lower 
mandible yellow ; iris brownish-yellow, bare skin round the eye yellow ; feet 
brown. Total length 540 mm. ; culmen 75, wing 217, tail 83, tarsus, 64. 
* The Plate is lettered Ardeiralla gouldi. 
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