ORDER HERODIONES. 137 



199. Ardea tricolor ruficollis (GOSSE). 



Louisiana Heron. 



Egretta ruficollis GOSSE, B. Jamaica, 1847, 338. 



Ardea tricolor ruficollis RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 



[B 484, C 454, R 49 2 > C 660.] 



HAB. Gulf States, Mexico, Central America, and West Indies, 

 casually northward to New Jersey and Indiana. 



SUBGENUS FLORIDA BAIRD. 

 Florida BAIRD, B. N. Am. 1858, 671. Type, Ardea caerulea LINN. 



200. Ardea ccerulea LINN. 



Little Blue Heron. 



Ardea ccerulea LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 143. 

 [B 490, C 456, R 493, C 662.] 



HAB. New Jersey, Illinois, and Kansas, southward through Central 

 America and the West Indies to Guiana and New Grenada ; casually 

 north on the Atlantic coast to Massachusetts and Maine. 



SUBGENUS BUTORIDES BLYTH. 



Butorides "BLYTH, 1849," BONAP. Consp. II. 1855, I28 - Type, 

 Ardea javanica HORSF. 



201. Ardea virescens LINN. 



Green Heron. 



Ardea virescens LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 144. 



[B 493, C 457, R 494, C 663.] 



HAB. Canada and Oregon, southward to Northern South America 

 and the West Indies ; rare or absent in the Middle Province. 



GENUS NYCTICORAX STEPHENS. 

 SUBGENUS NYCTICORAX. 



Nycticorax STEPH. Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 1819, 608. Type, Ardea 

 nycticorax LINN. 



