ORDER HERODIONES. 97 



now breeds locally in the United States from North Carolina to Louisiana ; 

 winters from Florida southward; casual in British Columbia, Ontario, Massa- 

 chusetts, and Nova Scotia. 



b. Egretta candidissima brewsteri THAYER & BANGS. Brewster's Egret. 



[197a.] 



Egretta candidissima brewsteri THAYER & BANGS, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, IV, April 29, 1909, 40. (San Jose" Island, Gulf of California.) 



RANGE. Southern Lower California. 



GENUS DICHROMANASSA RIDGWAY. 



Dichromanassa RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, 

 1878, 246. Type, by orig. desig., Ardea rufa BODDAERT = Ardea ru- 

 fescens GMELIN. 



Dichromanassa rufescens (GMELIN). Reddish Egret. [198.] 

 Ardea rufescens GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 628. (Louisiana.) 



RANGE. Southern North America. Breeds from Lower Cali- 

 fornia and Gulf of Mexico to Jamaica and Guatemala; winters from 

 southern Florida southward; casual in Colorado and southern Illinois. 



GENUS HYDRANASSA BAIRD. 



Hydranassa BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 660. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Ardea ludoviciana WILSON = Egretta ruficottis GOSSE. 



Hydranassa tricolor (MULLER). 



RANGE. Warm temperate eastern North America, Central 

 America, West Indies, and northern South America. 



a. [Hydranassa tricolor tricolor. Extralimital.] 

 6. Hydranassa tricolor runcollls (GOSSE). Louisiana Heron. [199.] 

 Egretta ruficollis GOSSE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 338. (Jamaica.) 



RANGE. Southern North America. Breeds from North Carolina and the 

 Gulf States to the West Indies, Mexico (both coasts), and Central America; 

 winters from South Carolina southward; casual in Indiana, New Jersey, and 

 Long Island. 



