HERODIAS EGRRTTA-BUTOIUDKS VIIlIiSUENS. G17 



List of specimens. 



763, eggs (4); P.vniniiil Lake, Nevada, May L'.J, ISOS. Nest on tlie " Pyiamid," 

 among the rocks, about 150 feet above the suil'aco of tbe lake. 



Hekodias egretta. 



Great White Heron. 



Ardea egretta, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, 629.— CouES, Key, 1872, 267 ; Ohe«!k 



List, 1873, No. 452; Birds N.W., 1874, 519. 

 Herodias egretta, Gray, Genera of Biid.s, III, 1849,— .— Baird, I'.irds N. Aiu., 



1858, 666 ; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 486.— Henshaw, 1875, 465. 

 ncrodias egretta var. caUfornica, Baird, Birds N. Am., 1858, 667 ; Gat. N. Am. 



Birds, 1859, No. 486a. 



This lumdsome Heron we saw at Sacramento in June, and alonf*- tlie 

 lower Truckee in May, a single individual only having been observeil at 

 each place. 



BUTOKIDES VIRESCENS. 

 Green Heron. 



Ardea virescens, Linn., Syst. Nat., 1, 1766, 238.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 268; Check 



List, 1873, No. 457 ; Birds N.W., 18J4, 522. 

 Butorides vircscens, Bonap., Conspectus Avium, II, 185."), 128.— Baird, Birds N. 



Am., 1858, 676; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 493.— IIensuaw, 1875, 465. 



This common bird was observed only in the vicinity of Sacramento, 

 where it was abundant, as it usually is in all parts of its range. It appeared 

 to be entirely wanting in the Great Basin — at least we could never find it, 

 even in localities where other species of the family were found in the usual 

 numbers.* 



List of specimens. 



14, ? ad.; Sacramento, California, June 10, 1867. Shallow pond along edge of 

 oak-grove. 18i — 27i — 7 } — 6^ — 2^\~^2-~-3 — 1. Bill, deep black, pale greenish-yellow 

 along gonys; naked loral and orbital space, greenish yellow; iris, gamboge-yellow; 

 tarsi and toes, dull olivaceous yellow, olive greenish on scutelhe. 



58, S ad.; Sacramento, June 19, 1867. Willows along slough near river. 18i 

 _274— 8—61—24— 15— 3— 14. Same remarks. 



' A parallel case is apparently aftorded in QaUinula galeata, which we found 

 abundant at Sacramento, in company with Fulica americatia, but which we did not 

 detect in the Interior, where the latter was everywhere exceedingly nninerous, in suita- 

 ble local ilii's. 



