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Gorsachius goisagi (Temm.). (26-169.) 
Nycticorax goisagi Teinminck, Planch. Color, livr. 98, pi. 582, 1835: 
Japan. (Fig. Faun. Jap. pi. 70.) 
Gorsachius typus Bonaparte, Conap. Gen. Ay. vol. ii. p. 138, 1855 : named 
Plancli. Color, pi. 582. 
Distr .—Japan, ltiu Kin Islands, Formosa, Philippine Islands, 
China. [?New Guinea.] 
Genus BUTORIDES Blyth. 
Butorides Blyth, Cat. Birds Mus. As. Soc. Bengal, p. 281 (pref. 
June), 1852. Type (by monotypy) : Ardea javanica Horsfield. 
Ocniscns Cabanis, Joum. fur Ornith. 1856 (No. 23), Sept. p. 343: new name for 
Butorides Blyth. 
Toburides Mathews, Austral Ay. Roc. vol. i. pt. 8, p. 195, March 20th, 1913. 
Type (by original designation): Butorides rogersi Mathews. 
Butorides javanica (Horsf.). 
Distr. —Java, Australia, and New Guinea to Tahiti. 
Butorides javanica javanica (Horsfield). (26-177.) 
Ardea javanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 190, 
May 1821: Java. 
Distr .—Java to Celebes. 
Butorides javanica patruelis (Peale). 
Ardea patruelis Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. vol. viii., Birds, p. 216, 
1848 : Tahiti. 1 
Distr . —Tahiti to Fiji. 
Butorides javanica moluccarum Hart. 
Butorides striatus moluccarum Hartert, Yog. palaarkt. Fauna, vol. ii. 
p. 1251, March 1920: Buru. 
Distr .— Moluccas (Bum, Ceram, Amboynn,and Obi?). 
Butorides javanica stagnatilis (Gould). (26-183.) 
Ardetta stagnatilis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1847, p. 221, 
March 29th, 1848: Port Essington, Northern Territory. (Fig. 
Gould, vi. pi. 67 ; Math. pi. 194.) 
Distr .—North- \V est Australia and Northern Territory. 
Butorides javanica macrorhyncha (Gould). 
Ardetta macrorhyncha Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xxxi. vol. vi. pi. 66, 
June 1st, 1848: Gosford, New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. 
pi. 66; Math. pi. 195.) 
Distr. —New South Wales. 
