166 ARDEID. 
An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i. p. 180 (1887) °; Stone, Pr. Acad. Philad. 1890, p. 208 ** ; 
Cherrie, Auk, 1892, p. 829"; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 527%; A. O. U. 
Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 73 ™. 
Florida cerulea, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1859, p. 63°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 226 6. P. Z. S. 1864, 
p. 8717; Scl. P. Z. S. 1360, p. 253; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 334 six. pp. 142”, 
2107"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 310”; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 49°; Sumichr. 
La Nat. y. p. 283™; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 406°”; vi. p. 879*°; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 100°; Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 117”. 
Ardea cerulescens, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vég. p. 3”; Cab. J. f. Orn. 1863, p. 59 °°, 
Demiegretta pealei (?), Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 313”. 
Ptil. estiv. Supra schistacea, plumis dorsalibus elongatis lanceolatis quoque schistaceis ; remigibus et rectri- 
cibus schistaceis; pileo et collo undique saturate purpureo-rubescentibus, pilei cristati plumis paullo 
saturatioribus ;, preepectore plumis schistaceis elongatis ornato ; corpore reliquo subtus saturate schistaceo : 
rostro ad basin ultramarino, apicem versus nigro; loris et palpebris nudis ultramarinis ; pedibus nigris ; 
iride pallide flava. Long. tota circa 22:0, ale 11:0, caude 3°8, culm. 2°95, tarsi 3°38. (Descr. maris 
adulti ex Tarpon Springs, Florida. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed plumis ornamentalibus brevioribus. Long. tota circa 20°5, ale 10-1. (Descr. femine 
adultze ex Tarpon Springs. Mus. nostr.) 
Forma altera avis adulte rarior pure alba. 
Juv. Pure alba, pileo distincte cyanescenti-griseo lavatis, collo et dorso griseo paullulum adumbratis ; 
primariis apicem versus griseo terminatis vel marginatis: rostro pallide lilaceo, apicem versus nigricante ; 
pedibus pallide viridibus ; iride flava. 
Hab. Nortn America, Eastern United States, from New Jersey, Illinois, and Kansas 
southward, casually north on the Atlantic coast to Massachusetts and Maine *.— 
Mexico (Deppe & Schiede *° *°), Mazatlan (Grayson®°, Forrer *"), ‘Tampico 
(Richardson ®"), Acapulco (Markham * *"), Laguna de Epatlan, Laguna del Rosario, 
Plan del Rio, Jalapa (Ferrari-Perez®), La Antigua, Vega del Cazadero, Vera Cruz 
(Trujillo 2"), Vera Cruz (Sallé'®), Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec °°, Tonala, Chiapas 7” 
(Sumichrast), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith ?"), Shkolak, Yucatan (Stone & Baker"), 
Merida (Schott 21), Cozumel I. (Gaumer §?"); British Honpuras, Belize (Leyland ™, 
Blancaneaua 2"); Guatemata (Constancia®), Coban (Skinner '°, O. S.°"), Rio 
Nagualate near El Idolo, Duefias, Chiapam (0. S.?"); Honpuras (Dyson *"), 
Fonseca Bay (Taylor 31), Omoa (Leyland 1°); Nicaracua, Blewfields (Wickham °), 
Rio Escondido (Richmond 3°), San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast (Mutting 7°); Costa 
Rica (v. Frantzius + 2°), San José (Cherrie !*), Pejé (Carmiol °7), Punta Arenas (Capt. 
Dow 7’, Zeledon 1), Bebedero, Pozo Azul, Miravalles (Underwood), La Palma, Gulf 
of Nicoya (Nutting 25); Panama, Castillo (#. Arcé°), Lion Hill Station (I‘Lean- 
nan17 19 27) Sour Ammrica, Colombia, Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil °‘; Wust INDIEs *”. 
The white plumage of the young of this bird is very remarkable. Mr. Ridgway says 
there is also a white phase of the adult; but this must be extremely rare, as in the 
large series in our collection we have none that confirm his statement. Young birds 
in their white plumage are always recognizable, on account of the blackish-blue 
shading at the end of the quills. Mr. Ridgway, in the ‘ Water-Birds of North America’ 
