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SuBOEXus GARZETTA Kaup. 

 ARDEA CANDIDLS8IMA Gmel. 



Snowy Heron. 



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Adult : — XA'itli a long occipital crest of decomposed leathers and siuiilar dorsal 

 plumes, latter rernrird when perfect; similar, but not recurved plumes on the 

 lower neck, which is bare behind; lores, eyes and toes, yellow; l)ill and legs, 

 black, former yellow at base, latter yellow at lower part behind. Plumage 

 always entiiely white. Length, 24; wing, 11-12; bill, 3; tarsus, 32-4. 



H.vB. — Temperate and tropical America, from New Jersey, Minnesota and 

 ( )regon, south to Patagonia ; casually on the Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia. 



Nest, a platform of sticks, usually in top of a tall tree, sometimes in a bush 

 above the water. 



Eggs, three to live, pale bluish-green. 



The young of the Snowy Heron inherit the family pecuUarity of 

 making their first journey in the wrong direction, and it is to this 

 fact that we ai-e indebted for the visits we occasionally receive from 

 them along our southern frontier during the early fall. I have had 

 them sent to me from Long Point, on Lake Erie, and have heard of 

 their being captured at other places, but all were young birds, and I 

 have no record of the species being found breeding in Ontario. 

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