FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [4] 
The following list of North American water birds is complete up to 
date. The numbers correspond strictly with those of the latest “¢ Smith- 
sonian” catalogue (Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 
21), and the nomenclature is essentially the same, a few changes being 
found necessary in the light of more recent investigations, while several 
species subsequently added to the fauna have been interpolated in the 
proper places. The range of each species is indicated in general terms, 
followed by a list of the specimens exhibited. 
An asterisk prefixed to the number of a specimen indicates that the 
specimen in question is a duplicate and may be exchanged. 
Order HERODIONES.—The AurriciaL WADERS. 
Family ARDEID.—The Heron Trise. 
‘486. Ardea occidentalis Aud. Great WHITE HERON; WUR- 
DEMANN’S HERON. [488, 489.] Southern Florida. 
Accidental (?) in Southern Illinois. (Whole of *Aus- 
troriparian” Province?) Cuba; Jamaica. 
AsG*. Ardea wardi Ridgw. WaArpb’s Herron. Southwestern 
Florida (vicinity of Oyster Bay). 
a. No, 77946. g ad. Hernando County, Florida, March 30, 1879; 
J. W. Milner.t 
b. No. 77947. g juv. Hernando County, Florida, March 19, 1879; 
J. W. Milner. 
“487. Ardea herodias Linn. Great Bur Huron. [487.] Whole 
of temperate North America, Middle America, and 
West Indies; Galapagos; Venezuela. 
a. No. 84576. g ad. Knox County, Indiana, June 11, 1877; R. Ridg- 
way. 
b. No. 84578. @ juv. Wabash County, Illinois, September 26, 1870; 
R. Ridgway. 
[488.] Ardea cimerea Linn. Common EvROPEAN HERON. 
Europe and other parts of the Old World; acci- 
dental in Greenland. 
489. Herodias egretta (Gmel.). AMERICAN EGRET. [486, 486a.] 
Whole of America, except colder regions. 
*qa, No. 86199. Ad., nuptial plumage. Gainesville, Florida, April, 
1882; J. Bell. 
Mexico, January, 1863; J. Xantus. *b. No. 30455, Q ad., Costa Rica; Dr. A. 
von Frautzius. 
AMERICAN FisH HAwKk, or Osprey, Pandion haliwtus carolinensis (Gm ).—a. No. 77281, 
é ad., Hernando Connty, Florida, February 24, 1876; Greene Smith. 0b. No. 84479, 
g juv., Mount Carmel, Ill., September 5, 1870; R. Ridgway. 
+The name of the collector of the specimen is given, whenever known, in preference 
to that of the donor, though of course the two are often identical. 
