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Zappey indicate. The specimen, an adult male, is rather smaller 

 than the average (wing, no mm.), although it is in fresh plumage; 

 its posterior under parts are much whiter, in fact, pure white medi- 

 ally down to the under tail-coverts. Examination of a considerable 

 series of this species, however, shows that such pale birds are not 

 localized in their distribution, but occur at such widely separated points 

 as Sacramento, California (No. 33.353. Collection Museum Compara- 

 tive Zoology), Fort Snelling, Minnesota (No. 189,493, Collection U. S. 

 National Museum), and Lake Harney, Florida (No. 152,913, Collec- 

 tion U. S. National Museum), so that they can have no geographical 

 significance. One other individual was seen by Mr. Link, at Los 

 Indios early in October, while Mr. Read sets it down in his list as a 

 common winter resident. In a letter from Mr. Charles T. Ramsden, 

 of Guantanamo, Cuba, he expresses the opinion that it would be 

 very difficult to distinguish breeding examples from winter-resident 

 birds (if, indeed, the northern birds come to Cuba at all), for the reason 

 that he has found partly incubated eggs on December 10, while it is 

 improbable that a specimen shot May 10 was other than a breeding 

 bird. Mr. Zappey found the Least Bittern common in the Cienaga 

 in March, 1902. Jamaica seems to be its southern breeding limit in 

 the Antilles. 



II. Ardea occidentalis repens Bangs and Zappey. Cuban Great 

 White Heron. 



Ardea repens Bangs & Zappey. Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 186 (Cienaga and cays 

 off coast; orig. descr.; type now in coll. Mus. Comp. Zool.). — Allen, Auk, 

 XXII, 190S, 329, in text (review). — Editors, Ibis, 1905. 631, in text (review). 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 11, and XXX, 1913, 132 (I. of Pines, rare). — 

 Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Dec. 27, 1913 (I. of Pines, rare; descr.). 



"Great White Heron" Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75 (I- of Pines).— Read, 

 Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines, Mar. 13). 



"Cuban White Heron" Read, Oologist, XXVII, 1910, 5. and XXVIII, 1911, 10 

 (Nuevas River), 146 (Bibijagua); XXX, 1913, 123 (Pine River), 125 (Santa 

 Barbara), 131 (I. of Pines, Mar. 13). 



Ardea herodias repens Bangs, Auk, XXXII, 1915, 484, part (I. of Pines; crit.). 



One specimen: El Bobo Lagoon. 



Measurements. 



No. Sex. Locality. Wing. 



132411 9 Cienaga, I. of Pines 44° 



412052 9 El Bobo Lagoon, I. of Pines 4^3 



' Collection E. A. and O. Bangs. Type. 



2 Collection Carnegie Museum. 



