ARDEIDAC. 
203 
Ixobrychus minutus (Linne). 
Distr. —Europe, Africa, and Asia (West) to Australia and New 
Zealand. 
[Ixobrychus minutus minutus (Linn<*). (26-234.) 
Arden minnta Linne, Syst. Nat. 12th ed. p. 240 (pref. May 24tli), 
1706: Switzerland. (Fig. Dresser, vi. pi. 401.) 
Distr .—Central and Southern Europe and Northern Africa. 
Extra-limi tal.] 
Ixobrychus minutus dubius Mathews. 
Ixobrychus minutus dubius Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 234, 
Jan. 31st, 1012: Herdman’s Lake, South-West Australia. (Fig. 
Gould, vi. pi. 08; Math. pi. 107.) 
Distr. —South-West Australia. 
Ixobrychus minutus alisteri Mathews. 
Ixobrychus minutus alisteri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 188, 
March 20th, 1013 : New South Wales. 
Ardea pusilla Vioillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xiv. p. 432, Sept. 13th, 
1817 : New Soxith Wales. Not Muller, Vollst. Natursyst. Suppl.p. Ill, 1776. 
Ixobrychus minutus queenslancUcus Mathews, Austral Av. Roc. vol. ii. p. 89, 
Sept. 21th, 1914 : Kedron Brook, Queensland (South). 
Ixobrychus minutus victoria Mathews, ib. vol. iii. p. 24, Juno 30th, 1915 : 
Geeling, Victoria. 
Distr. —Queensland to Victoria. 
Ixobrychus minutus novaezelandiae (Potts). 
Ardeola novazelandia Potts, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. vol. iii. p. 00, 
May 1871 : Westland, South Island, New Zealand. 
Distr .—New Zealand. 
Genus ZONERODIUS Salvad. 
Zonerodius Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xviii. p. 336, 1882. 
Type (by monotypy): Ardea heliosylus Lesson. 
Zonerodius heliosylus (Lesson). (26-102.) 
Ardea heliosylus Lesson, Voy. ‘ Coc^iHe,’ Zool. pi. 44, 1828, vol. i. 
p. 722, 1830 : New Guinea. 
Botaurus phsethon Rciohenow, Journ. fiir Orn. 1877, p. 247 : New Guinea. 
Ardetta cockerelli Diggles, Trans. Phil. Soc. Q’land. vol. ii. p. 5, 1873: Aru 
Islands. 
Distr .—New Guinea, Salwatti, and Aru Islands. 
Genus ARDEOLA Boie. 
Ardeola Boie, Isis, 1822, col. 500. Type (by monotypy) : Ardea 
ralloides Scop. 
