64 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



Fall mi cj rat ion. 



[Agami Heron. Agamia agami (Gnielin). 



A nonmigratory species ranging west to Palenque, Chiapas ( Nelson and Gold- 

 man), and to Rio Coatzacoalcos, Vera Cruz (Sumichrast). It is rare and local 

 in British Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more common in Panama, 

 and has a wide range in northern South America, south to Yurimaguas, Peru, 

 and to Matto Grasso, Brazil.] 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Nyctanassa violacea (Linnaeus). 



Range. Temperate and tropical America, north to South Carolina, 

 Illinois, Kansas, and Lower California; south throughout the West 

 Indies and Central America to Brazil and Peru. 



Breeding range. The yellow-crowned night heron is a common 

 breeding bird in Florida and the lower parts of the Gulf States. On 

 the Atlantic coast it breeds north to Charleston, S. C. (Wayne). It 

 nests much farther north, however, in the Mississippi Valley even at 

 the mouth of the Illinois River (Widmann) ; to Mount Carmel, 111. 

 (Nelson) ; Bicknell, Ind. (Chansler) ; Crooked Creek, Kans. (Goss) ; 

 Fort Reno, Okla. (Merrill) ; Gurley, Tex. (Howell) ; and Laredo, 

 Tex. (Butcher). The northern limit of the breeding range on the 

 Pacific coast is found at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, at Magdalena Bay, Lower 

 California, and on Socorro Island. The species is a common breeder 

 in the Bahamas and the West Indies, and less commonly and some- 

 what locally throughout Central America and northern South America 

 south to Paranagua, Brazil (Pelzeln) ; and Tumbez, Peru (Tacza- 

 nowski). 



Winter range. The yellow-crowned night heron seems to desert 

 the United States during the winter, though an injured bird spent 

 the winter of 1909-10 at Upper Matecumbe Key, Fla. (Brodhead). 

 and two birds were seen during January, 1912 r near Brownsville, 



