Bubulcus ibis coromandus (Boddaert)

Cancroma Coromanda Boddaert, Table Pl. enlum., 1783, p. 54. (Type locality, Coromandel.)

Ardeola ibis coromanda Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 183 (Koror).

Bubulcus ibis coromandus Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 204 (Koror, Babelthuap); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Palau).

Geographic range.—India, Ceylon, east to China and Japan and south to Malaysia. In Micronesia: Palau Islands—Babelthuap, Koror.

Remarks.—The Japanese ornithologists have recorded the Cattle Egret from Babelthuap and Koror in the Palau Islands. It is a winter migrant.