98 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS FLORIDA BAIRD. 



Florida BAIRD, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac., IX, 1858, 671. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardea ccerulea LINN^US. 



Florida cserulea (LINNAEUS). Little Blue Heron. [200.] 



Ardea ccerulea LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 143. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. North and South America. Formerly bred from Mis- 

 souri, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey to western Mexico and south 

 to Argentina and Peru; in the United States now breeds locally on 

 the Gulf coast and in South Carolina; wanders casually to Nebraska, 

 Wisconsin, Ontario, New England, and Nova Scotia; winters from 

 South Carolina southward. 



GENUS BUTORIDES BLYTH. 



Butorides BLYTH, Catal. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc., 1849 (1852?), 281. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardea javanica HORSFIELD. 



Butorides vires cens (LiNN^us). 



RANGE. United States south to Central America and the West 

 Indies, and probably northern South America. 



a. Butorides virescens virescens (LINNAEUS). Green Heron. [201.] 



Ardea virescens LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 144. (Virginia and 

 Carolina.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from southern South Dakota, 

 northern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia 

 south to the West Indies; winters from the West Indies southward, and 

 rarely in southeastern United States; casual in Colorado. 



b. Butorides virescens frazari (BREWSTER). Frazar's Green Heron. [201a.] 



Ardea virescens frazari BREWSTER, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 83. (La Paz, 

 Lower California.) 



RANGE. Lower California (vicinity of La Paz). 



c. Butorides virescens dnthonyi (MEARNS). Anthony's Green Heron. [201c.] 



Ardea virescens anthonyi MEARNS, Auk, XII, July, 1895, 257. (Seven 

 Wells, Salton River, Colorado Desert, Lower California.) 



