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EGRETTA CANDIDISSIMA (Gmelin). 

 Ardea candidissima Gm., .Syst. Nat., I, 1789, p. 633. 

 Ardea candidissima Berlepsch, Ibis, 1884. p. 438 (Angostura). 



Native names Garza bianco pcquina; Egret; Osprey; Garza de 

 pluma. Abundant, and like its larger relative H. egretta, more widely 

 distributed during the rainy season than during the dry season. 



HERODIAS EGRETTA (Gmelin). 

 Ardea egretta Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 629. 

 Herodias egretta Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 124. 



Native name Garza bianco grande. Abundant. During the rainy 

 season this species has the entire vast savanna region as a feeding 

 ground and at that time is widely distributed over the open savannas; 

 but, as the savannas become dry and parched with the advance of the 

 dry season, the flocks of egrets are driven closer and closer together 

 near the banks of streams and ponds in their search for suitable feeding 

 grounds. 



Eye straw yellow ; bill dark chrome yellow ; bare skin about base of 

 bill and eye citron yellow ; feet black. 



FLORIDA CAERULEA CAERULEA (Linnaeus). 

 Ardea caerulea L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10. I. 1758. p. 143. 

 Florida caerulea Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 124. 



Not common. Specimens collected only at Caicara, but noted 

 also at Ciudad Bolivar, Altagracia and Quiribana de Caicara. Klages 

 took a specimen at Mato River which is recorded by Berlepsch and 

 Hartert. 



AGAMIA AGAMI (Gmelin). 

 Ardea agami Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 629. 

 Agamia agami Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 125. 



tRare. An immature male (recorded by Berlepsch and Hartert) 

 was taken at Quiribana de Caicara, in the belt of.heavy timber border- 

 ing Quiribana Creek, April 4, 1898; and an adult male, near the same 

 point May I, 1907. The colors on the latter bird were: 



Eye ochraceous rufus ; bill black above, dusky grey with greenish 

 wash below ; feet slate black anteriorly, dusky pea green posteriorly. 



The colors of the immature male taken at Quiribana de Caicara 



