586 APPENDIX. 



/'. Adult with sides of forehead (to considerably in front of eyes), together 



with whole crown and occiput (beneath crest), including longer crest- 



featliers, uniform deep black; forehead and centre of crown pure 



white, without dusky streaks; shoulder-knots entirely deep black, 



or (rarely) narrowly streaked with white, and without admixture 



of rusty; lowermost wing-coverts without white on outer webs; 



outer web of exterior tail-feather without distinct wedge-shaped 



82)aco of white ; breast, belly, and anal region deej) black (the last 



entirely so), the breast and belly broadly striped with white; gray 



of upper parts of a deep plumbeous tint. 



g^. Laigcr, with legs and feet yellowish brown or olive-yellowish ; 



length about 48.00-54.00, wing 19.50-21.00 (20.00), tail 7.15-8.00 



(7.58), exposed culmcn 5.90-6.90 (6.25), depth of bill at base 



1.10-1.30 (1.19), tarsus 7.85-8.40 (S.19), middle toe 4.65-5.15 



(4.83), bare portion of tibia 4.45-5.60 (5.05). Hab. Florida, 



chiefly (?) on western side ; south to Oyster Baj', north to 



Gainesville 193. A. wardi EiD(iw. Ward's Heron. 



g^. Smaller, with black or dusky legs and feet, the tiliia, only, yel- 

 lowish ; length about 40.00-18.00, wing 18.00-19.50 (18.58), tail 

 7.00-7.50 (7.23), exposed culmen 5.45-5.95 (5.68), depth of bill 

 at base 1.05-1.17 (1.14), tarsus 6.75-7.85 (7.16), middle too 3.90- 

 4.50 (4.18), naked portion of tibia 4.00-4.50 (4.20). JIab. Whole 

 of temperate North America (except middle and southern 

 Florida) ; north to Hudson's Bay and Sitka, south through Mid- 

 dle America to Colombia and Venezuela (including Curasao); 

 Bermuda ; Galapagos ? 



194. A. herodias Linn. Great Blue Heron. 

 A. wuerdemanni is probal)ly merely an intermediate plumage connecting 

 A. occidentalis with A. wardi, the three forms doubtless merely color-phases of 

 one species, for which A. occidentalis is the older name. 



(13.) Page 131, Ardea pealei : 



This is unquestionably a white phase of A. nifcscois. 



(14.) Pago 132, under Ardea virescens : 



201((. Ardea virescens frazari BitnwsT. Frazar's Green ncron,' 

 Much darker than A. virescens, with the coloration much moro uniform, the 

 neck very dark purjilish chestnut, stronglj' glaucous in certain lights. Sab. 

 Southern portion of I.,ower California (vicinity of La Paz). 



20\b. Ardea virescens anthonyi Meahns. Anthony's Green Heron.* 



Larger and much paler throughout than A. virescens ; chestnut of the neck 



much ])aler and moro cinnamomeous ; white streaks of foreneck and white mar- 



' Arrica viretcenH /raiari Brewst., Auk, v. Jnn. 1888, 8.3. 



' Ardea viretccnt anihoni/i ME.iit.v9, Auk, lii. July, ISOa, 257. 



