TOO BANGS — GREAT BLUE HERON wes 
—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 heroditas 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 4. Aerodias, 
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. 
