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Demigr&tta sacra cooktowni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 232, Jan. 31st, 
1912: Cooktown, Queensland (blue bird). (Fig. Math. pi. 191.) 
Dcmigretta sacra torment i Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 232, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Point Torment, North-West Australia (blue bird). 
Demigretta sacra buchanani Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 85, Sept. 18th, 
1912 : Buchanan Island (white bird). 
Demigretta matook carte ri Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xl. p. 75 
Jan. 30th, 1920: Capo Loeuwin, South-West Australia (blue bird). 
JJistr . — Tropical Northern Australia. 
Genus NYCTICORAX Forster. 
Nycticorax Forster, Synopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 59, Dec. 1817. Type 
(by monotypy) : N. infaustus Forster = Ardea nycticorax Linne. 
Nyctiardea Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 354, July 1st, 1837: new name 
for Nycticorax Forster. 
Scotmus Keyserling und Blasius, Wirbelth. Europa’s, pp. lxxx, 220 (before 
April), 1840 : new name for Nycticorax Forster. 
Nycterodius Macgillivray, Manual Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 126, May 26th, 1842 ; 
new name for Nycticorax Forster. 
Nycticorax nycticorax (Linne). 
Dislr .—Europe, Africa, Asia, and south to the Moluccas. 
Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax (L.). (26-146.) 
Ardea nycticorax Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. vol. i. p. 142, 1758: 
South Europe. (Fig. Dresser, vi. pi. 402.) 
(For synonyms cf. Hartert, Vdg. der palii. Fauna, ii. p. 1252, 1920.) 
JJistr .—Europe, Asia to Celebes and Moluccas. 
Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius (Miller). 
Ardea ncevia Miller, Var. Subj. Nat. Hist. pi. 35, 1782: Americana 
meridionali. (Fig. Cim. Phys. pi. 30 = 35, immature.) 
JJistr .—Hawaiian Islands, North and South America. 
Nycticorax manillensis Vigors. 
JJistr .—Philippines, -Borneo, and Celebes. 
Nycticorax manillensis manillensis Vigors. (26-162.) 
Nycticorax manillensis Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1831, p. 98: 
Manilla. (Fig. Zool. Typ. pi. (50.) 
JJistr .—Philippines, Borneo, and Palawan. 
Nycticorax manillensis minahassae M. & W. (26-163.) 
Nycticorax minahassce Meyer & Wiglesworth, Journ. fur Orn. 1894, 
p. 115 : Celebes (N.). 
Distr .—Celebes. 
