242 BIRDS OF BEKMUDA. 



Family ARDEID^. 



Sub-family AEDEIN^. 



Genus Ardea, Linn. 



121. Ardea herodias, Linn. Great Blue Heron. 



Ardea herodias, Linn., Gm., Lath., Wils., Temm., Bp., Sw. & Rich., Nutt., 



And., Gir., Bd., Scl., Newton, and authors generally. 

 Ardea hudaonias, Linn., Gm., Lath. 



Length, 42 ; wmg, 18J. 



Sab. — North America to Hudson's Bay and Sitka ; south to Guate- 

 mala and Galapagos ; West Indies ; breeds throughout its range ; win- 

 ters in the south. (Coues.) 



Of this fine species Colonel Wedderburn says (Nat. in B., p. 38): 

 "Many of these birds arrive in autumn, and a few remain throughout 

 the year. In 1846 the nest of this bird, containing two eggs, was found 

 amongst the mangrove trees at Hungry Bay. The Eev. H. B. Tristram 

 kept one of these Herons alive in his garden (at the parsonage in Ire- 

 land Island), which was once seen to seize a Ground Dove and swallow 

 it entire." I made numerous inquiries, and kept a careful lookout, but 

 was unable to ascertain whether any second instance occurred of the 

 nest being found. Most of the examples obtained or seen during my 

 stay were in immature plumage. A few were always to be seen singly 

 among the islands in the Great Sound and Castle Harbor, being very 

 wary and hard to approach. 



122. Ardea egretta, (Gm.) Gray. Great White Egret. 



Ardea egreita, Gm., Lath., Wils., Nutt., And., Coues. 



Herodias egretta, Gray, Bd., Coues & Prent., Allen, Coues, Dress., Lawr., 



Mayn. 

 Herodias alba var. egreita, Ridg. 

 Herodias egretta var. californica, Bd. 

 Ardea leuce, 111., Licht. 

 Egretta leuce, Bp. 

 Herodias leuce, Brehm. 

 Ardea alba, Bp. 



Length, 39; wing, 15.J, 



Sah. — United States southerly, straggling northward to Nova Scotia, 

 Massachusetts, Canada West, and Minnesota; West Indies, Mexico, 

 Central and South America. (Coues.) 



Two were killed at Hungry Bay in 1840 ; several were subsequently 

 seen, but not obtained. A colored youth described two of these birds to 

 me as having been seen by him in Warwick Swamp in October, 1874, 



