ARDKIDiE. 
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Genus DUPETOR Heine & Reich. 
Dupetor Heine und Rcichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 308 (pref. 
Sept.), 1890. Type (by monotypy) : Arie a flavicollis Latham. 
Xanthocuus Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. xxxvii, April 30th, 1894. 
Type (by subsequent designation, Sharpe, Zool. Roc. vol. xxxi., Aves, p. 29, 
1895) : Ardea jiai'icollAs Latham. 
Dupetor flavicollis (Latham). 
Distr . — China through the Malay Peninsula to Celebes and 
Australia. 
[Dupetor flavicollis flavicollis (Latham). (26-247.) 
Ariea flavicollis Latham, Index Orn. vol. ii. p. 791 (before Dec. 9th), 
1790. South China. 
Distr . —Central and Southern China. Extra-limital.] 
Dupetor flavicollis gouldi (Bonaparte). (26-250.) 
Arietta gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 132 (after 
April 15th), 1855: New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 65 ; 
Math. pi. 198.) 
Ardea Jlavicollis australis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, vol. v., Ardea , p. 46, April 
1863 : New South Wales. Not Lesson, Traits d’Orn. p. 572, June 11th, 1831. 
Distr . —Southern Australia. 
Dupetor flavicollis olivei (Mathews). 
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. 
Anleiralla Jlavicollis tnelvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 74, 
June 28th, 1912 : Melville Island. 
Distr . — Northern A ustralia. 
Dupetor flavicollis melaena (Salvad.). (26-251.) 
Arietta melana Salvador!, Atti Acad. Sci. Torino, vol. xiii. p. 1187, 
1878 : Halmahera. (Fig. Cat. Birds, xxvi. pi. 3. tig. 2.) 
Xanthocnus melas Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. 37, 1894 (new 
spelling). (Cf. Stresemann, Orn. Monatsber. 1926, p. 118.) 
Distr. —Halmahera, Moluccas, and Sangi Islands. Aru Islands. 
Note. — W hat is Arietta nigra Diggles, Trans. Phil. Soc. Q’land, 
vol. ii. p. 5, 1873: “Cape York,” hut probably Aru Island 
(cf. Austral Av. Rec. ii. pp. 147, 151, 1915) ? 
Dupetor flavicollis nesophilus (Sharpe). (26-250.) 
Ardeirallus nesophilus Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. xxxii, 
1824 : Duke of York Island, (Fig. Cat. Birds, xxvi. pi. 3. fig. 1.) 
Distr .—New Britain, Duke of York Island. 
