26 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Ardea occidentalis Audubon. Great White Heron. [192.] 



Ardea occidentalis Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), III, pi. 281, 1835 

 (Orn. Biog., Ill, 1835, 542). (between Indian Key and Key West 

 Florida.) 



Range. — Southern Florida and the Florida Keys. Casual north to Anclote 

 River, Micco, and Daytona Beach, Florida. 



Ardea herodias herodias Linnaeus. Great Blue Heron. [194.] 



Ardea Herodias Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 143. Based mainly 

 on the Ash-coloured Heron from North America ErwAErs, Nat. Hist. 

 Birds, 135. (in America = Hudson Bay.) 



.Range. — Breeds from Nova Scotia, central Quebec, northern Ontario, 

 southern Manitoba, central Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia to 

 Tennessee and South Carolina, west to Iowa and Nebraska, and in Bermuda. 

 Winters from New York (rarely Massachusetts) and the Ohio Valley to 

 Florida, Texas, and Panama, casually to Colombia and Venezuela. Accidental 

 in Greenland. 



Ardea herodias wdrdi Ridgway. Ward's Heron. [1946.] 



Ardea wardi Ridgway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, No. 1, Jan., 1882, 5. 

 (Oyster [= Estero] Bay, Florida.) 



Range. — Breeds from southeastern South Carolina, southern Georgia, 

 southern Alabama, southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, southeastern 

 Iowa, and Kansas to Oklahoma, southeastern Texas, the Gulf coast, and the 

 Florida Keys. Winters in Florida, southern Alabama, Texas, and southward 

 in Mexico to Jalisco. 



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 Ardea herodias treganzai Court. Treganza's Heron. [194c.] 



Ardea herodias treganzai Court, Auk, XXV, No. 3, July, 1908, 291. (Egg 

 Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah.) 



Range. — ^Breeds from southern Wyoming, southern Idaho, and eastern 

 Washington south in the interior to Salton Sea, southern California, north- 

 eastern Lower California, western Sonora, and southern New Mexico, east to 

 western Texas and central Colorado. Winters from Texas, southeastern Cali- 

 fornia, and Arizona to Colima, Mexico. 



Ardea herodias fannini Chapman. Northwestern Coast Heron. [194a.] 



Ardea herodias farmini Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIV, Art. 

 8, April 15, 1901, 87. (Skidegate [Graham Island], Queen Charlotte 

 Islands [B. C.].) 



Range. — Breeds along the Pacific coast from Cook Inlet, Alaska, to Cape 

 Flattery and Nisqually Flats, Washington. Winter range about the same. 



