96 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



c. Ardea herodias wardi RIDGWAY. Ward's Heron. [1946.] 



Ardea wardi RIDGWAY, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, Jan., 1882, 5. 

 (Oyster Bay, Florida.) 



RANGE. Florida, and the Gulf coast to Texas. 



[Ardea cinerea LINN^US. European Heron. [195.] 



Ardea cinerea LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Most of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in southern 

 Greenland.] 



GENUS HERODIAS BOIE. 



Herodias BOIE, Isis, X, 1822, 559. Type, by subs, desig., Ardea egretta 

 GMELIN (Gray, 1855.) 



Herodias egretta (GMELIN). Egret. [196.] 



Ardea egretta GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 629. (Cayenne.) 



RANGE. Temperate and tropical America. Breeds in Oregon 

 and California, and from North Carolina, Florida, the Gulf coast, and 

 Mexico south to Patagonia; formerly bred north to New Jersey and 

 Wisconsin; winters from the Gulf of Mexico southward; casual in 

 Manitoba, Quebec, New England, and Nova Scotia. 



GENUS EGRETTA T. FORSTER. 



Egretta FORSTER, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Ardea garzetta LINN.EUS. 



Egretta candidissima (GMELIN). 



RANGE. South America and North America north nearly to 

 northern border of the United States. 



a. Egretta candidissima candidissima (GMELIN). Snowy Egret. [197.] 



Ardea candidissima GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 633. (Cartagena, 

 Colombia.) 



RANGE. Temperate and tropical America. Formerly bred from Oregon, 

 Nebraska, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey south to Chile and Argentina; 



