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Ixobrychus neéxenus (Cory). Cory’s Least Bittern. [191.1.] 
Ardetta neoxena Cory, Auk, III, April, 1886, 262. (Caloosahatchie River, 
near Lake Okeechobee, Florida.) 
RancGE.— Imperfectly known. Breeds in southern Ontario and 
southern Florida; occurs casually in Massachusetts, Michigan, and 
Wisconsin. 
SuspraMILy ARDEINAS. Herons anv EGRETs. 
GeENus ARDEA LINN ZXUS. 
Ardea Linnaxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 141. Type, by subs. desig., 
Ardea cinerea LINN&®US (Gray, 1840). 
Ardea occidentélis AupDuBON. Great White Heron. [192.] 
Ardea occidentalis AupuBOoN, Birds Amer. (folio), III, 1835, pl. 281. 
(Keys near Key West, Florida.) 
Rance.— Region bordering Gulf of Mexico from southern Florida 
south to Cuba, Jamaica, and Yucatan; casual north to Anclote 
River and Micco, Florida. 
Ardea herédias LINN US. 
RancGe.— North America, north to southeastern Alaska and Hudson 
Bay; south in winter to the West Indies and northern South America. 
a. Ardea herodias herodias LiInnzus. Great Blue Heron. [194.] 
Ardea herodias LiInNxvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Hudson Bay.) 
RanGE.— Western Hemisphere. Breeds from southeastern British Colum- 
bia, central Alberta, central Manitoba, northern Ontario, and Prince Edward 
Island south to southern Lower California, northern Texas, and South Atlan- 
tic States (except Florida); winters from Oregon, the Ohio Valley, and Middle 
States south to the West Indies, Panama, and Venezuela. 
b. Ardea herodias fannini CuHapman. Northwestern Coast Heron. [194a.] 
Ardea herodias fannini CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XIV, 1901. 87. 
(Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C.) 
RanceE.— Pacific coast from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Washington. 
