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(Chapman) ; and at St. Marys, Ga. ( Helme) ; while in Aiidubon's 

 time a few wintered as far north as Charleston, S. C. The birds 

 winter rarely on the coast of Louisiana (Beyer), but, even in the 

 early days when they were abundant, only a few remained through 

 the winter near Galveston, Tex. (Audubon), or even as far south as 

 Brownsville, Tex. (Merrill). In western Mexico the snowy egret is 

 resident as far north as it breeds, and seems to be nonmigratory 

 throughout all of its range in Central and South America. 



Spring migration. The northward movement began in early 

 March: Cumberland, Ga., March 7, 19O2 (Helme) ; Warrington, Fla., 

 March 22, 1885 (Stone) ; Frogmore, S. C., average date of arrival for 

 five years March 23, earliest March 22, 1889 (Hoxie) ; southern New 

 Jersey, arrived in early May (Audubon) ; Rodney, Miss., April 18, 

 1887, 'April 13, 1888 (Mabbett). 



The nesting season is exceedingly variable in different parts of 

 the extensive breeding range; in the extreme south, at Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina, eggs are laid in November (Gibson) ; Man-o'-war Cay, 

 British Honduras, young nearly grown May 8, 1862 (Salvin) ; Cuba, 

 nests from June to October (Gundlach) ; Tarpon Springs, Fla., eggs 

 August 26, 1886 (Scott) ; Charlotte Harbor, Fla., May 6, 1886 

 (Scott) ; Kissimmee Lake, Fla., April 19, 1908 (Nicholson) ; Charles- 

 ton, S. C., April 27, 1910 (Wayne) ; Cape May, N. J., May 19, 1812 

 (Wilson) ; Louisiana, eggs April 10 to June (Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway) ; Brownsville, Tex., young just hatched May 15, 1877 

 (Sennett) ; San Jose Island, Lower California, eggs June 19-24, 1908 

 (Thayer). 



Fall migration. The presence of nonbreeding birds throughout the 

 summer north of the normal breeding range obscures the records of 

 the northward migration of the young birds in the fall, but this 

 seems to have taken place in July, as in the other species of herons, 

 but never to have been on a large scale. The Long Island records 

 occur from July 1 to August 4 (Braislin) ; latest in Maryland at 

 Marlboro, August 25, 1893 (Kirkwood) ; Frogmore, S. C., October 

 4, 1886 (Hoxie) ; Canadian River, Okla., still common September 3 

 to 5, 1820 (Long). 



Reddish Egret. Dichroiiuimixtta rufescens (Gmelin). 



The range of the reddish egret extends from the Gulf States to 

 Mexico, the Bahamas, and the Greater Antilles. 



This bird is more restricted than most of the herons in its breed- 

 ing range, which includes Florida north to Pelican Island (Bryant) ; 

 and lower Suwanee River (Brewster and Chapman) ; the coast of 

 Louisiana (Beyer) ; Corpus Christi, Tex. (Sennett) ; and Browns- 



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