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breeding in the salt marshes about James Bay on James Island, and 

 he obtained eggs in August. 



Family ARDEID^. 



Genus Ardea Linnaeus. 

 Ardea Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 141, 1758. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan except New Zealand and Polynesia. 

 Galapagos Archipelago. 



24. ARDEA HERODIAS Linnseus. 



Ardea herodias Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 143, 1758. — Darwin, Zool, 

 Voy. Beagle, iii. Birds, p. 128, 1841 (Galapagos). — Ridgway, Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., XIX, p. 601, 1896. — Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. 

 Zool., VI, p. 180, 1899. 



Rajige. — Northern temperate and tropical America. Galapagos 

 Archipelago : Seymour, Indefatigable, Duncan, Albemarle and 

 Narboro. 



We found this heron especially abundant in the mangrove swamps 

 of the east shore of Narboro. In January we obtained here a set of 

 three eggs. The nest consisted of a flat platform of large twigs, 

 placed in a mangrove tree about a foot and a half above high water. 



Genus Herodias Boie. 



Herodias Boie, Isis, p. 559, 1822. 

 Range. — Cosmopolitan. 



25. HERODIAS EGRETTA (Gmelin). 



Ardea egretta Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, p. 629, 1788. 



f Herodias egretta Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 601, 1896 



(? Galapagos). 

 Herodias egretta Rothschild and Hartert, Novit. Zool., vi, p. 181, 1899 



(Albemarle Island, Galapagos). 



Range. — Temperate and tropical America. Galapagos Archipel- 

 ago : Albemarle. 



Only one specimen of the American egret has been obtained at the 

 Galapagos ; it was taken by the Harris expedition and determined by 

 Rothschild and Hartert to be the same as South American birds. 

 Baur and Adams reported finding on Albemarle "a rookery of white 

 herons." We saw one individual on a small island in the center of a 

 lake in the bottom of the large tufa crater just south of Tagus Cove, 

 Albemarle. 



