ORDER HERODIONES. 95 



Ixobrychus ne6xenus (CORY). Cory's Least Bittern. [191.1.] 



Ardetta neoxena CORY, Auk, III, April, 1886, 262. (Caloosahatchie River, 

 near Lake Okeechobee, Florida.) 



RANGE. Imperfectly known. Breeds in southern Ontario and 

 southern Florida; occurs casually in Massachusetts, Michigan, and 

 Wisconsin. 



SUBFAMILY ABDEINJE. HERONS AND EGRETS. 



GENUS ARDEA LINN.EUS. 



Ardea LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 141. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Ardea cinerea LINN^US (Gray, 1840). 



Ardea occidentalis AUDUBON. Great White Heron. [192.] 



Ardea occidentalis AUDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), III, 1835, pi. 281. 

 (Keys near Key West, Florida.) 



RANGE. Region bordering Gulf of Mexico from southern Florida 

 south to Cuba, Jamaica, and Yucatan; casual north to Anclote 

 River and Micco, Florida. 



Ardea herodias LINNAEUS. 



RANGE. North America, north to southeastern Alaska and Hudson 

 Bay; south in winter to the West Indies and northern South America. 



a. Ardea herodias herodias LIXN/EUS. Great Blue Heron. [194.] 



Ardea herodias LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 143. (Hudson Bay.) 



RANGE. Western Hemisphere. Breeds from southeastern British Colum- 

 bia, central Alberta, central Manitoba, northern Ontario, and Prince Edward 

 Island south to southern Lower California, northern Texas, and South Atlan- 

 tic States (except Florida) ; winters from Oregon, the Ohio Valley, and Middle 

 States south to the West Indies, Panama, and Venezuela. 



6. Ardea herodias fannini CHAPMAN. Northwestern Coast Heron. [194a.] 

 Ardea herodias fannini CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XIV, 1901, 87. 

 (Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C.) 



RANGE. Pacific coast from Prince William Sound, Alaska, to Washington. 



