April 29, 1909 Vou, IV, pp. 39-41 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF THE 
SNOWY HERON. 
BY JOHN E. THAYER AND OUTRAM BANGS. 
One of the important discoveries made by W. W. Brown, Jr., 
while collecting birds in Lower California, for the Thayer Museum, 
was finding a large colony of Snowy Herons nesting at San José 
Island in the Gulf of California, about sixty miles north of La Paz. 
From this colony Mr. Brown took several sets of eggs; he also 
made a dozen skins of the birds, then in full breeding plumage. 
When unpacking these birds, we were at once struck by their large 
size,— especially by their long bills and huge legs,—and upon 
comparison with an extensive series from the southeastern United 
States we found the differences to be so great that we propose to 
call the Lower Californian bird, in honor of William Brewster, as a 
