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Butorldes virescens virescens (Linnaeus). Eastern Green Heron. [201.] 



Ardea virescens Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 144. Based mainly 

 on The Small Bittern, Ardea stellaris minima Catesby, Carolina, I, 80. 

 (in America = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from North Dakota, central Minnesota, northern Wiscon- 

 sin, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to the Dry 

 Tortugas, the Gulf coast, Texas, Mexico, southern Guatemala, and northern 

 Honduras, and west to central Colorado and New Mexico. Winters from 

 Florida (casually South Carolina) and southeastern Texas to Central America 

 and the northern coast of Colombia. Casual in Bermuda, Porto Rico, and 

 Haiti. 



Butorides virescens frazari (Brewster). Frazar's Green Heron. [201a.] 



Ardea virescens frazari Brewster, Auk, V, No. 1, Jan., 1888, 83. (La Paz, 

 Lower California.) 



Range. — Lower California, from San Ignacio to La Paz. 



Butorides virescens anthonyi (Mearns). Anthony's Green Heron. [201c.] 



Ardea virescens anthonyi Mearns, Auk, XII, No. 3, July, 1895, 257. 

 (Seven Wells, Salton River, on the Colorado Desert, Lower California.) 



Range. — Breeds or summers from Portland, Oregon, to northern Lower 

 California, southern Arizona, and northern Sonora, Mexico. Winters from 

 southern California to southern Mexico and central Costa Rica. 



[Other closely related races of B. virescens occur in the Bahamas, West 

 Indies, Mexico, and Central America.] 



Genus NYCTICORAX Forster. 



Nyclicorax T. Forster, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by 

 monotypy, Nyclicorax infaustusFoRSTER = Ardea nyclicorax Linnaeus. 



Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli (Gmelin). Black-crowned Night Heron. 

 [202.] 



Ai-dea Hoaclli Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 630. Based mainly on 



the Hoactli or Dry Bird Ray, Synops. Avium, 179 (ex Hernandez), (in 



novae Hispaniae lacubus = Lakes of Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Oregon, southern Wyoming, southern 



Manitoba, and southern Quebec south to Paraguay. Winters from northern 



California, Oregon, and New York southward, occasionally in New England, 



southern Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and New Brunswick. 



Casual in British Columbia and in Bermuda. [A closely related race is found 



in the Eastern Hemisphere.] 



