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Casual in District of Columbia; Pennsylvania (Waynesburg) ; 

 New York (near Cohoes) ; ? Rhode Island (Natick) ; Massachu- 

 setts (Buzzards Bay) ; Vermont (Lunenburg) ; New Hampshire 

 (Wakefield) ; and Ontario (Guelph and Beaumaris). 



Type locality. — Valley of the south fork of the Humboldt River, 

 Nevada. 



(??) Ardea, (Grus) mexicana Mullek, Syst. Nat, Suppl., 1776, 110 (Mexico; 

 based on Boddaert). 



[Ardea canadensis]^ Latham, Index Oru., ii, 1790, 676. 



Orus mexicana Vieiixot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xii, 1817, 531. — Ridgwat, Proc. 

 U, S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 356, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Checli List, 1S86, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 206, part; ed. 3, 1910, 100, part.— 

 Raij>h and Bagg, Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 110 (New Yorl< Mills, 

 Oneida County, N. Y., 1 specimen, 1873). — Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1893, 35 (lake region, British Columbia, breeding). — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 251, part (Orcas Island, Vancouver 

 Island).— JouY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 790 (Hacienda An- 

 gostura, San Luis Potosi). — Mereh.l (J. C), Auk, xiv, 1897, 351 (Fort 

 Sherman, Idaho, probably breeding). — Butler, Rep. State Geol. Indi- 

 ana for 1897 (1898), 670 (breeding "in recent years" in Carroll, Fulton, 

 Lake, and Starke Counties, northern Indiana). — Bee^vster, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 274 (Wakefield, N. H., 1 specimen, 1896 or 1897).— Woodcock, 

 Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. Bull. 68, 1902, 18 (Oregon Range ) .—Allen 

 (G. M.), Proc. Manchester Inst. Arts and Sci., iv, 1902, 82 (Wakefield, 

 N. H., in 1896 or 1897). — Kumlien and Holltster, Wisconsin Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Bull. 3, 1903, 37 (Wisconsin; habits).— Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 

 447 (Toronto, Ontario; 1 pair, no date). — Wedmann, Birds Missouri, 

 1907, 57 (once common migrant, now rare). — Woodruff, Chicago Acad. 

 Sci. Bull. 6, 1907, 57 (Chicago area; rare migrant). — Anderson, Proc. 

 Davenport Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 205 (Iowa; habits). — Cory, Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. Publ. 131, 1909, 377 (Illinois and Wisconsin records).— 

 ViSHER, Wils. Bull., xxii, 1910, 115 (Sanborn County, S. Dak., breeding; 

 habits; voice).— Eaton, Birds New York, i, 1910, 269, pi. 24 (Albion and 

 Clarendon, N. Y.).— Todd, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 368 (near Plymouth, Huron 

 County, Ohio, Apr. 11, 1911). — Willett, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 32 

 (common migrant in s. California) ; Condor, xxi, 1919, 200 (Malheur Lake, 

 etc., se. Oregon, breeding). — Barrows, Michigan Bird Life, 1912, 149. — 

 Wood (N. A.), 14th Rep. Michigan Acad. Sci., 1912, 160 (Unadilla, Liv- 

 ingston County, Mich., flock of about 20, Apr. 19, 1911) ; Auk, xxxviii, 

 1921, 590 (Washtenaw County, Mich., flock of 15, May 30, 1880, breeding in 

 1896; Whitefish Point, 1912, 1914, said to breed) ; Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. 

 Misc. Publ. 10, 1923, 25 (North Dakota records). — Forbush, Game Birds, 

 Wildfowl, and Shore Birds, 1912, 483 (history, etc.)— Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Bull. 128, 1914, 10, fig. 3, part (range and migration routes). — Grinnell 

 (J.), Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 45 (summer visitant mainly in Cali- 

 fornia ; breeding in ne. California, probably on northern high Sierra Nevada 

 and from San Joaquin Valley south to Tulare Lake ; wintering in San 

 Joaquin Valley). — Brooks (A.), Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 36 (Sumas, British Co- 

 lumbia, breeding up to 1902; still breeding near New Westminster). — 

 MUNRO, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 65 (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, common 

 migrant, occasionally breeding). — Swarth, Condor, xxi, 1919, 212, 213 in 

 text (near Corcoran, Kings County, Calif., Nov. 17, 1918, descr.). — Tav- 



