

Subgenus GARZETTA Kaup. 

 ARDEA CANDIDISSIMA Gmel. 



75. Snowy Heron. (197) 



Adult: — W'itli a long occipital crest of decomposed feathers and similar dorsal 

 ])lumes, latter reciimd when perfect; shnilar, but not recurved plumes on the 

 lower neck, which is bare behind ; lores, eyes and toes, yellow ; bill and legs, 

 Idack, former yelloM- at base, latter yellow at lower part behind. Plumage 

 always entirely white. Length, 24; wing, 11-12; bill, 3; tarsus, 32-4. 



Hab. — Tempeiate and tropical America, from New Jersey, Minnesota and 

 (_)i'egon, south to Patagonia : casually on the Atlantic coast to Nova Scotia. 



Nest, a platform of sticks, usiially in top of a tall tree, sometimes in a bush 

 above the water. 



Eggs, three to five, pale bluish-gi'een. 



The young of the Snowy Heron inherit the family peculiarity of 

 making their first journey in the wrong direction, and it is to this 

 fact that we are indebted for the visits we occasionally receive from 

 them along our southern frontier during the early fall. I have had 

 them sent to me from Long Point, on Lake Erie, and have heard of 

 their being captured at other places, but all were young birds, and I 

 have no record of the species being found breeding in Ontario. 

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