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Genus HERODIAS Bore. 
Herodias Bork, Isis, 1822, 559. Type, by elimination, Ardea 
egretta GMELIN. 
The only North American species will stand as 
196. Herodias egretta (GMELIN). 
Ardea egretta GMELIN, S.N., I, ii, 1788, 629. 
Flerodias egretta CABANIS, Journ. f. Orn., 1856, 341. 
Genus EGRETTA Forster. 
Ligretta FORSTER, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, 
Ardea garzetta LINNE&US. 
Lgretta is equivalent to Garzetta of the Check-List, over which 
name it has priority, Garzetta Kaup dating from 1829, and 
fgretta ForsTER from 1817. 
97. Egretta candidissima (GMELIN). 
Ardea candidissima GMELIN, S.N., I, ii, 1788, 633. 
Legretta candidissima GOsse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 336. 
Genus DICHROMANASSA Ripcway. 
Dichromanassa Rweway, Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geogr. Surv. 
Terr., IV, 1878, 246. Type, Ardea rufa BODDAERT. 
198. Dichromanassa rufescens (GMELIN). 
Ardea rufescens GMELIN, S.N., I, 11, 1788, 628. 
Dichromanassa rufescens A. O. U.. Committee. 
