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NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



ville, Tex. (Merrill). It breeds somewhat commonly in the Bahamas 

 from Great Bahama (Cory) and Abaco (Ridgway) on the north to 

 Caicos (Cory) on the south; is rare in Cuba (Gundlach), and is 

 recorded from Jamaica (March) and Haiti (Cory). It breeds at 

 San Jose Island, Lower California (Brown) ; near San Bias, Tepic 

 (Nelson) ; and on the coast and islands of Yucatan (Salvin, Law- 

 rence, and Nelson). It has been taken at Chiapam, Guatemala (Sal- 

 vin) ; and at Tehauntepec, Oaxaca (Sumichravst) ; and, as the species 

 is largely nonmigratory, probably it breeds at or near both these 

 localities. 



A few instances have been noted of the wandering of the reddish 

 egret north of its breeding range. Several were seen in August, 1875, 



FIG. 16. Reddish egret (Dichromanassa rufescens). 



near Cairo, 111. (Nelson) ; one was taken near Colorado Springs, 

 Colo. (Aiken) ; and one near Golden, Colo. (Berthoud) ; and several 

 were seen at San Quintin, Lower California (Anthony). 



It is partially migratory along the north limit of the breeding 

 range, and few, if any, remain in Louisiana through the whole of 

 the winter, but the species does winter in southern Florida (Scott) 

 and in Mexico as far north as Mazatlan, Sinaloa (Lawrence), and 

 La Paz, Lower California (Belding). 



Eggs were found near Corpus Christi, Tex., March 24, 1878 

 (Sennett) ; young in the nest, May 3, 1890, at Captive Pass, Fla. 

 (Jamison) ; and young on the wing, April 15, 1901, Cozumel Island, 

 Yucatan (Nelson). Gundlach says that in Cuba it nests from July 

 to October. 



