_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
Rufous Night Heron
_Nycticorax caledonicus pelewensis_ Mathews, Bull. British Ornith.
Club, 46, 1926, p. 60. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Nycticorax caledonicus_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British
Mus., 26, 1898, p. 158 (Pelew); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p.
10 (Ruk); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 1, 1913, p. 255 (Palauinseln);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 50 (Pelew); Uchida,
Annot. Zool. Japon., 9, 1918, p. 486 (Palau); Wetmore, in Towsend
and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 172 (Uala, Truk
Atoll); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 37 (Pelew,
Ruk).
_Nycticorax manillensis_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1872, pp. 89, 105 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy,
8, 1875, pp. 5, 33 (Palau); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880,
p. 577 (Ruk); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy,
1881, p. 353 (Ruk); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 69 (Pelew, Ruk).
_Nycticorax caledonicus pelewensis_ Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 200 (Pelew, Carolines); Peters,
Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 39, 1930, p. 271 (Pelew, Carolines);
Peters, Check-list Birds World, 1, 1931, p. 115 (Pelew); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 183 (Palau, Truk); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 204 (Babelthuap, Koror, Coracel,
Truk); Amadon, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1175, 1942, p. 6 (Palau,
Ruk); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 285 (Palau, Truk);
Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 43
(Angaur, Peleliu, Garakayo, Truk).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Coracel, Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad, Angaur; Caroline Islands--Truk.
_Characters._--Adult: Size medium; head and nape dark slaty-black;
occipital plumes white with dark tips and shafts; back dark
reddish-brown, lighter on sides of neck, wings, wing coverts,
rump, and tail; under parts whitish with light reddish-brown on
sides of neck extending to throat and upper breast; tibia with
some brownish feathers; underwing pinkish; feet yellowish-brown;
bill black.
Immature: Resembles adult, but upper parts mottled black with
reddish-brown; underparts with lighter streaks of brown and
whitish on breast; feet yellowish; bill black above, yellowish
below.
Adult resembles _N. c. manillensis_ Vigors, but is duller above.
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