LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CLV. Genus IXOBBYCHUS. 
Ixobrychus Billberg, Synops. Faun* Scand., Vol. I., pt. ii., p. 166, 1828. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Stone, Auk, April, 1907, p. 192 : Ardea minuta Linne, cf. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2 and 3, p. 41 
Oet. 23rd, 1913. 
Ardeola Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, Vol. II., p. 307, 1828 [November 1827]. Type (by 
monotypy) : Ardea exilis Gmelin. 
Not of Boie, Isis, heft v., col. 559, 1822, May. 
Ardetta Gray, Appendix List Genera Birds, p. 13, (before April) 1842. Type (by original designation) : Ardea 
minuta Linne. 
Erodiscus Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb., pt. 6, p. 410, (pref. Oct. 17th, 1841) early 1842. Type (bv monotypy) : Ardea 
minuta Linne; . ' 
172. IXOBRYCHUS MINUTUS. LITTLE BITTERN. 
[Ardea minuta Linne, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 240, (pref. May 24th) 1766 : Switzerland. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 68 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 197, June 
25th, 1914. 
Ardea pusilla Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XIV., p. 432, Sept. 13th, 1817 : Nouvelle Hollande = New 
South Wales. 
Not of P. L. S. Muller, Vollst. Natursyst. Suppl., p. Ill, (pref. Jan. 4th) 1776. 
Ixobrychus minutus dubius Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 234, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Herdman’s Lake, South- 
west Australia. 
Ixobrychus minutus alisteri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 188, March 20th, 1913 : New South 
Wales. 
Ixobrychus minutus queenslandicus Mathews, ib., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 89, Sept. 24th, 1914: Kedron Brook, 
Queensland. 
Ixobrychus minutus victoria Mathews, ib., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 24, June 30th, 1915 : Geelong, Victoria. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
CL VI. Genus DU PET OR. 
Dupetor Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 308, (pref. Sept.) 1890. Type (by monotypy) : 
Ardea flavicollis Latham. 
Xanthocnus Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. III., p. xxxvii., April 30th, 1894. Type (by subsequent 
designation, Sharpe, Zool. Rec., Vol. XXXI., Aves, p. 29, 1895) : Ardea flavicollis Latham. 
173. DUPETOR FLAVICOLLIS. YELLOW-NECKED MANGROVE BITTERN. 
[Ardea flavicollis Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1790 before Dec. 9th : South China. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 65 (pt. xxi.), Dec. 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 198, June 
25th, 1914. 
Ardetta gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 132, 1855 ; after April 15th : New South Wales. 
Ardea flavicollis australis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas (Vol. V.), Ardea, p. 46, April 1863 : New South Wales. 
Ardeiralla flavicollis olivei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 234, Jan. 31st, 1912: Johnston River, North 
Queensland. 
Ardeiralla flavicollis disneyi Mathews, ib. : Parry’s Creek, North-west Australia. 
Ardeiralla flavicollis melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 74, June 28th, 1912 : Melville Island, 
Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Australia generally. 
CL VII. Genus EOT AU BUS. 
Botaurus Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XI., pt. ii., p. 592, Aug. 1819. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Gray, p. 66, 1840) : Ardea stellaris Linne. 
Butor Swainson, in Murray’s Encyl. of Geogr., 1834. Type (by monotypy) ; B. americanus Sw. [= lentiginosus j. 
Erogas Hogg, Zoologist, Nov. 1845, p. 1172. Type (by monotypy) : A. stellaris Linne. 
174. BOTAURUS POICILOPTILUS. BITTERN. 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 64 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 199, June 
25th, 1914. 
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