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Family CICONIID^.— Storks and Wood Ibises. 

 188. Tantalus loculator Linn. — Wood Ibis. 



a rare, irregular straggler, if the reports of several persons, the names of 

 whom cannot be recalled at this moment, can be relied upon ( L. Bruner). 



Family ARDEID.^. —Herons, Bitterns, etc. 



190. Botaurus lentiginosus {Monlag,). — Bittern; Thunder 



Pumper. 



West Point, Holt county, Lincoln, Platte river — breeds in state (L. Bruner); 

 "Occasionally seen in Nebraska " (Aughey); "summer resident, common, ar- 

 rives in April and leaves in October " (Taylor); "The whole of temperate and 

 tropical North America" (Goss); Omaha— breeds (L. Skow); Peru— breeds (G. 

 A. Coleman); Cherry county (J. M. Bates); Wood River, O'Neill, Hartington 

 (D. H. Talbot); Omaha, a common migrant, but uncommon summer resident 

 (I. S. Trostler). 



191. Ardetta exilis (Gmelin). — Least Bittern. 



West Point, Lincoln— breeding at West Point (L. Bruner); "The whole of 

 temperate North America" (Goss); Omaha— nesting (L. Skow); Peru, abun- 

 dant — breeds (G. A. Coleman); Gage county (F. A. Colby); Omaha, "an abun- 

 dant migrant and a common summer resident " (L S. Trostler). 



194. Ardea herodias Linn. — Great Blue Her(w. 



West Point, Norfolk, Florence, Blair, Lincoln, etc. — breeding at West Point 

 (L. Bruner); "occasionally seen in Nebraska" (Aughey): "migratory, some- 

 times common, more abundant in the fall than spring" (Taylor); "North 

 America from the Arctic regions southward" (Goss); Omaha — breeding (L. 

 Skow); Oakdale, Wood River (D. H. Talbot); Gage county (F. A. Colby); 

 Omaha, "a common migrant and not uncommon resident" (I. S. Trostler). 



196. Ardea egretta Gmelin. — Great White Egret. 



Richardson county. May, 1873 (Samuel Aughey); "North casually to the 

 British provinces" (Goss); Nebraska City, Florence lake (L. Skow); "a strag- 

 gler was killed near Omaha, July 12, 1894" (L S. Trostler). 



197. Ardea candidissima Gmelin. — Snowy Heron; Little 



White Egret. 



Reported from southeastern Nebraska — not rare (L. Bruner); "Otoe and 

 Richardson counties" (Aughey); "From the northern United Stiites to Chili " 

 (Goss); " Straggler, one was killed near Fremont, Sept. 4, 1893" (I. S. Trost- 

 ler). 



200. Ardea coerulea Linn. — Little Blue Heron. 



Omaha (?) (Brezee); occasional in south part of state (L. Bruner); " Probably 

 not an uncommon summer resident" (Taylor); "Casually north to Massachu- 

 setts, Illinois, Kansas, etc." (Goss); Butler county, on Platte river (Dr. 



