_Ardes Nycticorax_ Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 142.
(Type locality, Southern Europe.)
_Nycticorax griseus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1872, pp. 89, 105 (Uap); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873,
p. 123 (Yap); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden,
no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 69 (Uap).
_Nycticorax nycticorax_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 26, 1898,
p. 146 (Yap).
_Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 36 (Mackenzie, Yap); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, rev., 1932, p. 183 (Yap, Uluthi); Hand-list Japanese Birds,
3d ed., 1942, p. 204 (Yap, Uluthi); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 302 (Marianas, Yap).
_Geographic range._--Europe and Africa east to Japan and Malaysia.
In Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Tinian; Palau Islands--Koror;
Caroline Islands--Yap, Ulithi, Truk.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 2 immature females, as
follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Koror, 1 (Nov. 27); Caroline Islands,
AMNH--Truk, 1 (June 18).
_Remarks._--The Black-crowned Night Heron is a winter visitor to western
Micronesia. Marshall (1949:221) records six of these birds on Tinian on
April 4, 1945, and one on Koror on November 27.
=Nycticorax caledonicus pelewensis= Mathews