Abstract:During the last decade years, more field records of the Japanese Night Heron (Gorsachius goisagi) have emerged in the mainland China revealing a wider range of the appearance of the bird from the Yalu river estuary of the very NE Chinese coast to the Gulf of Tonkin of the SW Chinese coast. For details – Liaoning: 23rd April 2012, one bird seen standing on mud, by David Melville. Jiangsu: 1). 1st May 2007, one bird seen on grassland in Langshan Botanic Garden of Nantong city and photoed by Jia Tao–gen; 2). 4th Oct. 2011, 3 birds on mud at Rudong recorded by DWX. Zhejiang: 1). 3rd Feb. 2010, HFQ noticed a bird skin in a private collection and learned that the bird got from the local market years ago; 2). 25th May 2011, one bird found in Hangzhou Botanic Garden and photoed by local birders (see the photo on cover page), the bird stayed there on 26th and left on 27th May. Fujian: 1). 31st Dec. 2010, one injured bird found by students at Mawei of Fuzhou, then, on 17th Dec. 2011, one bird seen and photoed by birders at Wushan of Fuzhou; 2). 14th–16th May 2009, one bird found taking activities in different places in Xiamen (Amoy); 3). JHD recently noticed three undated bird skins in the collection of the Dept. of Biology, Xiamen University. Guangxi: Migrant, found in Guilin, Hengxian, Hepu, Beihai, Qinzhou, Fangcheng, by Zhou Fang et al. (2011). Besides, following the records on 25th and 27th April 2006 near downtown of Wuyuan, NE Jiangxi of SE China, by HFQ and LJS (He et al. 2007), four more records of the bird from Wuyuan by DWX, i.e., 15th April 2010 at Dazhangshan of N Wuyuan, 26th May 2010 at Xücun of W Wuyuan, 23rd April 2012 at Dazhangshan again, and 21st May 2013 at Zheyuan of N Wuyuan, reconfirming Caldwells’ description (1931) that the bird “Recorded from Kiangsi, March to May”.