Descriptive List 101 



Fort Macon in 1870, but found none breeding. Atkinson mentions in his list of 

 North Carolina birds a specimen in the collection of James Busbee, from Wilming- 

 ton. Cairns took one in Buncombe County, but the date appears not to have been 

 recorded. Bishop secured a pair at Pea Island, April 22, 1905. 



Pig. 65. Snowy Egret. 



Genus Hydranassa (Baird) 

 82. Hydranassa tricolor ruficoUis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. 



Description: Ails. — lippevparts dark bluish slate-color; back of head and upper neck with 

 elongated chestnut-rufous and white feathers; back with pale brownish gray "aigrette" plumes 

 reaching to tail; lower back, rump, and belly white; neck bluish slate-color: throat white, an 

 indi.stinct rufous line down the middle of foreneck; legs blackish; base of bill and lores liluish. 

 ^'>'- — Throat, and an indistinct line down the foreneck wliite; rest of head and neck brownish 

 rufous; upper back and wings bluish slate-color, more or less washed with brownish rufous; 

 no plumes; lower back, rump, and belly white; breast with more or less slaty streaks; legs 

 yellow behind, lilackish before; lower mandible and lores orange; upper mandible black. L., 

 26.00; W., 10.00; Tar., :3.70; B., :5.90. (Chap., Birds nj E. N. A.) 



Range. — Breeds from North Carolina to Central America; winters from South Carolina 

 southward. 



Range in North Carolina. — Coastal region in summer. 



