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wick, and Nova Scotia. [Allied races occur in southern Europe, tropical Asia, 

 tropical Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.] 



Genus EGRETTA Forster. 



Egretta T. Forster, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Ardea garzetta Linnaeus. 



Egretta thula thula (Molina). Snowy Egret. [197.] 



Ardea Thula Molina, Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chili, 1782, 2.35. (Chili.) 



Range. — Formerly bred from New Jersey (Cape May County), Nebraska, 

 Indiana, and Illinois south to Chile and Argentina; now breeds in the United 

 States locally along the coast from North Carolina to Louisiana and 

 Texas. Winters from Florida and Mexico southward. In late summer mi- 

 grates north to Kansas and Maryland and casually farther (recorded from 

 Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Vermont, 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and in Bermuda, 

 but some of the records doubtless refer to Florida c. caerulea). 



Egretta thula brewsteri Thayer and Bangs. Brewster's Egret. [197a.] 



Egretta candidissima breicsteri Thayer and Bangs, Proc. New Engl. 

 Zool. Club, IV, 40, April 29, 1909. (San Jose Island, Gulf of California.) 



Range. — Breeds from Utah and California south to Lower California, 

 migrating through Texas and Arizona to Mexico. Casual in late summer 

 north to British Columbia, Alberta, Colorado, and Wyoming. 



Genus DICHROMANASSA Ridgway. 



Dichromanassa Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, No. 

 IjFeb. 5, 1878, 246. Type, by orig. desig., Ardea rufa Boddaert = 

 Ardea rufescens Gmelin. 



Dichromanassa rufescens rufescens (Gmelin). Reddish Egret. [198.] 



Ardea rufescens Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Ft. ii, 1789, 628. Based mainly on 

 the Aigrette rousse Buffon, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux, VII, 378. (in Louis- 

 iana.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Gulf coast of the United States to Haiti, Jamaica, 

 and Guatemala. Winters from southern Florida southward. Casual in Colo- 

 rado and southern Illinois. 



Dichromanassa rufescens dickeyi van Rossem. Dickey's Egret. [198a.] 



Dichromanassa rufescens dickeyi van Rossem, Condor, XXVIII, No. 5, 

 Sept. 21, 1926, 246. (San Luis Island, Gulf of California.) 



Range. — Lower California. 



