Subspecies Egretta garzetta nigripes (Temminck, 1840)

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• Ardea nigripes Temminck, C.J. 1840. Manuel d'Ornithologie,. Paris : J. Cousin Vol. 4 2, pp.308-691. [\] [376].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) RMNH 87064 Mounted skin, Java, Indonesia; RMNH 87065 Mounted skin, Java , Indonesia; RMNH 87066 Mounted skin, Java, Indonesia; RMNH 87067 Mounted skin, Java, Indonesia; RMNH 87068 Skeleton, Java, Indonesia; NMW 47.482 Skin, Java, Indonesia.

  Type locality references:

  Van den Hoek Ostende, L.W., Dekker, R.W.R.J. & Keijl, G.O. 1997. Type-specimens of birds in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. NNM Technical Bulletin 1(1): 1-248 [Non-Passerines.] [15].

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [195]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [55].
• Herodias immaculata Gould, J. 1846. The Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 6. [pl. 58].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP 6687 (VN 1710) Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory [11°15'S, 132°08'E]; ANSP 6688 (VN 1709) Skin, Port Essington, Northern Territory [11°15'S, 132°08'E].

  Type locality references:

  Meyer de Schauensee, R. 1957. On some avian types, principally Gould's, in the collection of the Academy. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 109: 123-246 [139]; Ingersoll, A.W. & Fisher, C.T. 2006. Type specimens of birds in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Draft. pp. 1-355 [19].
• Egretta garzetta kempi Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of Additions of New Sub-species to, and Changes in, my " List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3: 53-68 [56].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AMNH 529946 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529947 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529948 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529949 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529950 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529951 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529952 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529953 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529954 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529955 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529956 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E]; AMNH 529957 Skin, Normanton, Queensland [17°40'S, 141°05'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [243].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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