The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution

by Rollin H. Baker

Cattle Egret

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.

Egretta intermedia intermedia (Wagler)

Plumed Egret

Ardea intermedia Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 659. (Type locality, Java.)

Egretta intermedia intermedia Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 183 (Koror); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 203 (Koror); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 42 (Rota, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Ulithi).