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now breeds loeally in the United States from North Carolina to Louisiana; 
winters from Florida southward; casual in British Columbia, Ontario, Massa- 
chusetts, and Nova Scotia. 
b. Egretta candidissima bréwsteri THaveR & Bancs. Brewster's Egret. 
[197a.] 
Egretta candidissima brewsteri THAYER & Banas, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 
Club, IV, April 29, 1909, 40. (San José Island, Gulf of California.) 
Ranae.— Southern Lower California. 
Genus DICHROMANASSA Ripaway. 
Dichromanassa Ripeway, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, 
1878, 246. Type, by orig. desig., Ardea rufa BopDAERT = Ardea ru- 
fescens GMELIN. 
Dichromandssa ruféscens (GMELIN). Reddish Egret. [198.] 
Ardea rufescens GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 628. (Louisiana.) 
RanceE.— Southern North America. Breeds from Lower Cali- 
fornia and Gulf of Mexico to Jamaica and Guatemala; winters from 
southern Florida southward; casual in Colorado and southern Illinois. 
GENUS HYDRANASSA Barrp. 
Hydranassa Barb, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., [X, 1858, 660. Type, 
by orig. desig., Ardea ludoviciana W1Lson = Egreita ruficollis Gossn. 
Hydran4ssa tricolor (MULLER). 
RancE.— Warm temperate eastern North America, Central 
America, West Indies, and northern South America. 
a. {Hydranassa tricolor tricolor. Extralimital.] 
b. Hydranassa tricolor ruficéllis (Gossr). Louisiana Heron. [199.] 
Egretta ruficollis Gossr, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 338. (Jamaica.) 
RaNnGE.— Southern North America. Breeds from North Carolina and the 
Gulf States to the West Indies, Mexico (both coasts), and Central America; 
winters from South Carolina southward; casual in Indiana, New Jersey, and 
Long Island. 
