Todd: The Birds of the Isle of Pines. 181 



Egretta candidissima Read, Oologist, XXX, 1913, 132 (I. of Pines). 



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



Messrs. Bangs and Zappey state that " the Snowy Heron is now very 

 rare on the Isle of Pines, having been killed off for its plumes. One 

 was seen in the Cienaga, and at Jucaro a native had a wounded bird 

 that was kept alive in confinement." Aside from this, the only records 

 are those by Mr. Read, above quoted. He writes that he took a 

 specimen December i, 1909, on the Nuevas River, and that he has 

 since seen several along this same stream. But the possibility of 

 confusing this species with the white phase of the Little Blue Heron is 

 so great that it is very doubtful if it occurs as frequently as a perusal 

 of Mr. Read's notes would lead us to believe. Mr. Link, indeed, 

 made a special search for this species, going in pursuit of every small 

 white heron that he saw, but all turned out to be Little Blue Herons 

 in the white phase. 



17. Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. 



Ardea leucogaster Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, fide 



Gundlach). 

 Ardea tricolor ruficollis Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 89 (I. of Pines, in geog. 



distr.). 

 Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 183 (I. of Pines). — 



Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 187 (seacoast, Cienaga, etc.). — 



Hellmayr, Nov. Zool., XIII, 1906, 50 (I. of Pines,; meas.). — Read, Oologist, 



XXVIII, 1911, II, and XXX, 1913, 132 (I. of Pines). — Read, I. of Pines News, 



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

 "Louisiana Heron" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). — 



Read. Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 102, and XXX, 1913, 130 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 



1911, 10 (Nuevas River), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa 



Barbara). 

 Hydranassa tricolor (not of Miiller) Read, Bird-Lore, XVI, 1914, 50 (Santa 



Barbara) . 



Four specimens: Los Indios and Bird Island. 



Two of the Los Indios examples, dated October i and 4 respectively, 

 are in worn breeding dress, while a third, taken May 8, is in full nuptial 

 plumage. The specimen from Bird Island, shot on October 18, is in 

 Juvenal plumage, the neck and breast being deep rufous, and the 

 pileum, hind neck, and flanks still bearing remains of the natal down. 

 All of these specimens have rather more rufous on the throat than the 

 average Florida bird, possibly indicating divergence in the direction 

 of the subspecies rufimentum, described from Trinidad by Mr. Hell- 

 mayr. 



