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Ardea herodias hyperonca Oberholser. California Heron. [194c?.] 



Ardea herodias hyperonca Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XLIII, 

 No. 1939, Dec 12, 1912, 550. (Baird [Shasta Co.], California.) 



Range. — Breeds mainly west of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, in the 

 Upper Austral and Transition zones from western Oregon to northern I^ower 

 California. Winters in its breeding range and south to Guadalupe Island, 

 Lower California. 



Ardea herodias sancti-lucae Thayer and Bangs. Espiritu Santo Heron. [194e.] 



Ardea herodias sancti-lucae Thayer and Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, IV, 83, Feb. 23, 1912. (Espiritu Santo Island, Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California from San Jose Island to San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



[Additional races of A. herodias occur in the West Indies, Mexico, and the 

 Galdpagos.] 



• Ardea cinerea cinerea Linnaeus. European Heron. [195.] 



Ardea cinerea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (in Europa = 

 Sweden.) 



Range. — Most of Europe and western Asia south of lat. 60° N., the Canary 

 Islands, and Africa south to the Cape and Orange River colonies. Accidental 

 in Iceland and southern Greenland (Godthaab, January 14, 1877 ^ and Nenor- 

 talik, 1856 -). [Allied races occur in eastern Asia and Madagascar.] 



Genus CASMERODIUS Gloger. 



Casmerodius Gloger, Hand- und Hilfsbuch Naturg., 1842 [pp. 1-450, 

 1841], 412. Type, by subs, desig., Ardea cgretta Gmelin (Salvador!, 



1882). 



Casmerodius albus egretta (Gmelin). American Egret. [196.] 



Ardea Egretta Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 629. Based mainly on 

 the Grande Aigrette Buffon, Hist. Nat. Oiseaux, VII, 377. (in insula 

 S. Dominici, insulis Falkland et America australi ad Louisianam 

 usque = Cayenne.) 



Range. — -Breeds in Oregon and California, and from Arkansas, Tennessee, 

 North Carolina, Florida, the Gulf coast, and Mexico south to Patagonia; 

 formerly bred north to Cape May County, New Jersey, and Wisconsin; now 

 greatly reduced in numbers. Winters from Oregon (rarely), California, Texas, 

 the Gulf of Mexico, and South Carolina southward. In late summer migrates 

 northward, regularly to New Jersey and southern New England, and casually 

 to Maine, New Hampshire, Michigan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Bruns- 



1 Hagerup, Birds of Greenland, 1891, 53. 



2 Winge, Groenlands Fugle, 1898, 242. 



