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 IOO BANGS — GREAT BLUE HERON [ Vol. Ill 



very justly, as it seems to me, — I shall call the Galapagos 



great blue heron 



Ardea herodias cognata subsp. nov, 



Type, from Indefatigable Island, Galapagos, ( $ ?) adult, no. 12,451, coll. 

 of E. A. and O. Bangs, collected Feb. 16, 1901, by R. H. Beck. 



Characters. — Similar to Ardea herodias herodias Linn, of North America, 

 but smaller, with a proportionally larger bill. Colors all paler; sides of neck 

 pale drab-gray, much paler and much more whitish toward head than in the 

 continental bird ; whole upper parts, including wings and tail, much paler 

 gray ; belly, breast and under side of neck, with much more white and much 

 less black ; thighs very much paler — dark, dull ferruginous in true A. herodias, 

 vinaceous cinnamon in the new bird; bend of wing with much less ferrugin- 

 ous and much more white, the ferruginous color also very much paler. 



Measurements. — Type, adult (probably a female, though not sexed by the 

 collector): wing, 732; tail-feathers, 167; tarsus, 145; middle toe, without 

 claw, 96; exposed culmen, 137 mm. 



