98 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus FLORIDA Barrp. 
Florida Barrp, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 671. Type, 
by monotypy, Ardea cerulea LINN-ZUS. 
Florida ceralea (Linn=us). Little Blue Heron. [200.] 
Ardea cerulea Linn=vs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (Carolina.) 
Rance.— North and South America. Formerly bred from Mis- 
souri, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey to western Mexico and south 
to Argentina and Peru; in the United States now breeds locally on 
the Gulf coast and in South Carolina; wanders casually to Nebraska, 
Wisconsin, Ontario, New England, and Nova Scotia; winters from 
South Carolina southward. 
GENus BUTORIDES BtiyrTu. 
Butorides BuytH, Catal. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc., 1849 (1852?), 281. Type, 
by monotypy, Ardea javanica HorsFIELD. 
Butorides viréscens (LINN&XUS). 
Rancr.— United States south to Central America and the West 
Indies, and probably northern South America. 
a. Butorides virescens virescens (LiInN=us). Green Heron. [201.] 
Ardea virescens LINNEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 144. (Virginia and 
Carolina.) 
RanceE.— Eastern North America. Breeds from southern South Dakota, 
northern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia 
south to the West Indies; winters from the West Indies southward, and 
rarely in southeastern United States; casual in Colorado. 
b. Butorides virescens frazari (BREWSTER). Frazar’s Green Heron. [201a.] 
Ardea virescens frazari Brewster, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 83. (La Paz, 
Lower California.) 
Ranae.— Lower California (vicinity of La Paz). 
c. Butorides virescens 4nthonyi (Mearns). Anthony’sGreen Heron. [201c.] 
Ardea virescens anthonyi Mearns, Auk, XII, July, 1895, 257. (Seven 
Wells, Salton River, Colorado Desert, Lower California.) 
