_Ardea melanolopha_ Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13, 1822, p.
326. (Type locality, Western Sumatra.)
_Nycticorax goisagi_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. London,
1868, pp. 8, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872,
p. 89 (Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden,
no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 68 (Pelew).
_Nycticorax melanolophus_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875,
pp. 5, 35 (Palau).
_Gorsachius melanolophus_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 26, 1898,
p. 166 (Pelew).
_Gorsahius melanolophus melanolophus_ Hand-list Japanese Birds,
rev., 1932, p. 184 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 204 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302
(Palau).
_Gorsachius melanolophus melanolophus_ Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 200 (Pelew).
_Geographic range._--India, Ceylon, southern China, Formosa,
Indochina, Malaysia. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--exact locality
unknown.
_Remarks._--Captain Tetens obtained a specimen of this bittern at the
Palau Islands which was reported on by Hartlaub and Finsch (1868a:8,
1868b:118). It is probably a rare straggler to western Micronesia. The
specimen has not been seen by me; it may be of the subspecies _G. m.
kutteri_ (Cabanis), which is known from the Philippine Islands.
=Ixobrychus sinensis= (Gmelin)