104 



SHORE BIRDS. 



white with forehead streaked with black. Resident on Fla. 

 Keys ; rare. 



3. WARD'S HERON, A. WARDI. Slightly smaller 

 than 2; differs in having the lower parts more broadly 

 streaked with black with a large black patch on sides of 

 "breast, and the occiput with its plume and sides of head, 

 black, leaving the middle of the crown and forehead white ; 

 neck, yellowish-gray, fig. 119. Young, with top of head, dull 

 slate ; neck darker and marked with reddish ; back marked 

 with reddish. Resident in Fla., breeding in March, nesting 

 usually on high trees. 



4. GREAT BLUE HERON, A. HERODIAS. Differs 

 from 3 in being smaller, 45.00; bill, 5.50, and in usually hav- 

 ing more black below. Breeds throughout entire N. A. from 

 the Arctic regions southward, excepting possibly Fla., Ba- 

 hamas and the West Indies, nesting in high trees; migrates 

 southward in Sep., Oct., and Nov. ; winters from the Caroli- 

 nas southward to northern S. A. ; occasionally as far north as 

 Mass. ; comes north in March and April. Common. 



5. EUROPEAN BLUE HERON, A. CINEREA. Differs 

 from 4 in being smaller, 37.00; bill, 4.80, and in having the 

 bend of wing and tibia white. Northern portions of eastern 

 hemisphere; accidental in southern Greenland. 



b. Plumed Herons. Fig. 120. 



Herodias. 

 Size medium. Back, 

 plumes, greatly elongated, 

 reaching beyond end of 

 tail, straight, stiffened 

 with barbs separated and 

 lengthened; head and 

 breast plumes absent, fig. 

 120. Color, always white. -! 

 Wing-beats rather slow. 

 Gregarious at all times. 



1. WHITE HERON, H. I, B t b, 1. 1-30. 



EGRETTA. 38.00 ; bill, 4.00 : iris, pale yellow; bill, orange; 



