LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
CLV. Genus IXOBRYCHUS. 
Ixobrychus Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., Vol. I., pt. ii., p. 160, 1828. Type (by subsequent designation, 
Stone, Auk, April, 1907, p. 192 : Ardea minuta Linne, cf. Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pts. 2 and 3, p. 41 ,’ 
Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Ardeola Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat-. Hist. Now York, Vol. II., p. 307, 1828 [November 1827], Type (by 
monotvpy) : Ardea exilis Gindin. 
Not of Boie, Isis, heft v., col. 559, 1822, May. 
Ardctta Gray, Appendix List Genera Birds, p. 13, (before April) 1842. Type (by original designation): JrtJeu 
minuta Linn6. 
Erodiscus Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb., pt. 6, p. 410, (pref. Oct. 17th, 1841) early 1842. Type (by monotypy) : Arda 
minuta Linne. 
172. IXOBRYCHUS MINUTUS. LITTLE BITTERN. 
[ Ardea minuta Linne, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., p. 240, (pref. May 24th) 1766 : Switzerland. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 68 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 197, June 
25th, 1914. 
Ardea pusiUa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XIV., p. 432, Sept. 13th, 1817 : Nouvelle Hollande=Xei 
South Wales. 
Not of P. L. S. Muller, Vollst. Natursyst. Suppl., p. Ill, (pref. Jan. 4th) 1776. 
Ixobrychus minutus dubius Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 234, Jan. 31st, 1912: Herdman's Lake, South¬ 
west Australia. 
Ixobrychus minutus alisteri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 8, p. 188, March 20tli, 1913: Xew South 
Wales. 
Ixobrychus minutus qucenslandicus Mathews, ib., Vol. II., pt. 5, p. 89, Sept. 24th, 1914: Kedron Brook, 
Queensland. 
Ixobrychus minutus victoria Mathews, ib., Vol. III., pt. i., p. 24, June 30th, 1915: Geelong, Victoria. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
CL VI. Genus DU PET OR. 
Dupetor Heine und Reichenow, Nomencl. Mus. Hein., p. 308, (pref. Sept.) 1890. Type (by monotypy): 
Ardea flavicollis Latham. 
Xanthocnus Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Omith. Club, Vol. III., p. xxxvii., April 30tli, 1894. Type (by subsequent 
designation, Sharpe, Zool. Rec., Vol. XXXI., Aves, p. 29, 1895) : Ardea flavicollis Latham.* 
173. DUPETOR FLAVICOLLIS. YELLOW-NECKED MANGROVE BITTERN. 
[ Ardea flavicollis Latham, Index Omith., Vol. II., p. 701, 1790 before Dec. 9th : South China. Extra-limital/: 
Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 65 (pt. xxi.), Dec. 1st, 1845. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 198, June 
25th, 1914. 
Ardctta gouldi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. II., p. 132, 1855 ; after April 15th : New South Wales. 
Ardea flavicoUis australis Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas (Vol. V.), Ardea, p. 46, April 1863 : New South Wales. 
Ardciralla flavicollis olivei Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 234, Jan. 31st, 1912: Johnston River, North 
Queensland. 
Ardciralla flavicollis disneyi Mathews, ib. : Parry's Creek, North-west Australia. 
Ardciralla flavicollis mclvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 3, p. 74, June 28th, 1912: Melville Island, 
Northern Territory. 
Distribution. Australia generally. 
CLVI I. Genus BOTAURUS. 
Botaurus Stephens, in Shaw s Gen. Zool., Vol. XI., pt. ii., p. 592, Aug. 1819. Typo (hv subsequent designation, 
Gray, p. G(>, 1840) : Ardea ntcllaris Linne. 
Butor Swainaon, in Murray's Eneyl. of Geogr., 1834. Typo (by monotypy) : 13. amcricanus Sw. [= Imiginom). 
Erogas Hogg, Zoologist, Nov. 1845, p. 1172. Type (by monotypy) : .4. stellari« Linnth 
174. BOTAURUS POICILOPTILUS. BITTERN. 
GouiL Vol. VI., pi. 04 (pt. xxx.), March 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 6, pi. 199, June 
9'vt.n lOld. x A 
