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ARDEID^E. 
Dupetor flavicollis australis (Lesson). * 
Ardea australis Lesson, Traite d’Orn. }). 572, June lltli, 1831 (ex 
Cuvier MS.) : Timor. 
Distr .— Timor. 
Genus ERYTHROPHOYX Sharpe. 
Erythrophoyx Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. xxxviii, 1894. 
Type (by original designation) : Ardeiralla woodfordi Grant. 
Erythrophoyx woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant). (26-252 ) 
Ardeiralla woodfordi Ogilvie-Grant, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1888, 
p. 202: Guadalcanal-, Solomon Islands. (Fig. Cat. Birds, xxvi. 
pi. 4.) 
Distr .—Solomon Islands. 
Hartert considers this a subspecies of Dupetor flavicollis (Latham). 
Erythrophoyx prsetermissa (Sharpe). (26-253.) 
Ardeirallus prmtermissus Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. iv, 
1893: Ceram. (Fig. Cat. Birds, xxvi. pi. 5.) 
Dish \—Ceram to Batjan. 
Considered by Hartert to be identical with A. melcena Salvadori, 
above. 
Genus BOTAURUS Stephens. 
Botaurus Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xi. pt. 2, p. 592, Aug. 
1819. Type (by subsequent designation, Gray, p. 66, 1840) : 
Ardea stellaris Linne. 
Butor Forster, Pocket Encycl. Nat. Phenom. p. 417. 1827. Type (by monotypy): 
A. stellaris Linne. 
Erogas Hogg, Zoologist, Nov. 1845, p. 1172. Type (by monotypy): A. stellaris 
Linne. 
Botaurus poiciloptilus (Wagler). 
Distr .—Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. 
Botaurus poiciloptilus poiciloptilus (Waglor). (26-258.) 
Ardea poiciloptila Wagler, Syst. Av., Ardea, sp. 28, note p. (185), 
Oct. 1827 : New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 64.) 
Botaurus australis Gould, Birds Austr. pt. xxx., March 1st, 1848: Now South 
Wales. 
Distr .—Eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
Botaurus poiciloptilus westralensis Mathews. 
Botaurus poiciloptilus westralensis Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 235, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Shark’s Bay, West Australia. (Fig. 
Math. pi. 199.) 
Distr. —West Australia, 
