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c. Ardea herodias wardi Ripacway. Ward’s Heron. [1940.] 
Ardea wardi Ripaway, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, Jan., 1882, 5. 
(Oyster Bay, Florida.) 
Rance.— Florida, and the Gulf coast to Texas. 
[Ardea cinérea LINN&us. European Heron. [195.] 
Ardea cinerea LINN2XUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. (Sweden.) 
RancEe.— Most of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in southern 
Greenland. ] 
GENUS HERODIAS Bole. 
Herodias Bot, Isis, X, 1822, 559. Type, by subs. desig., Ardea egretta 
GMELIN (Gray, 1855.) 
Herédias egrétta (GMELIN). Egret. [196.] 
Ardea egretta GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 629. (Cayenne.) 
Rance. Temperate and tropical America. Breeds in Oregon 
and California, and from North Carolina, Florida, the Gulf coast, and 
Mexico south to Patagonia; formerly bred north to New Jersey and 
Wisconsin; winters from the Gulf of Mexico southward; casual in 
Manitoba, Quebec, New England, and Nova Scotia. 
GENUS EGRETTA TT. Forster. 
Egretta Forster, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by mono- 
typy, Ardea garzetta LINN&US. 
Egrétta candidissima (GMELIN). 
RaNnGE.— South America and North America north nearly to 
northern border of the United States. 
a. KEgretta candidissima candidissima (GMELIN). Snowy Egret. [197.] 
Ardea candidissima GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 633. (Cartagena, 
Colombia.) 
Ranau.— Temperate and tropical America. Formerly bred from Oregon, 
Nebraska, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey south to Chile and Argentina; 
