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90. Ardea herodias Linn. GREAT BLUE HERON. (194.) 

 " North America, from the Arctic Regions southward to the West 

 Indies and Northern South America." With us it is a common 

 migrant, and in a few localities is found as a summer resident. It 

 is generally known by the name of "Crane" or "Sandhill Crane." 



91. Ardea egretta Gmel. AMERICAN EGRET (i9 6 -) 

 A southern species, breeding as far north as Virginia, and after the 

 breeding season wandering northward in small numbers. It is 

 here a rare but apparently regular summer visitant, arriving about 

 August i, and remaining until the last of September (Dutcher, 

 Auk, X, 1884, p. 32). 



92. Ardea candidissima Gmel. SNOWY HERON. (197.) 

 Has much the same range as the preceding species, and like it 

 strays northward after the breeding season. It occurs in small 

 numbers, but regularly, in some localities in this vicinity. One 

 of three individuals seen near Sayville, L. I., May 30, 1885, by 

 Messrs. William Butcher and L. S. Foster was "carrying a long 

 stick in its bill " (Dutcher, Auk, III, 1886, p. 435), and it is possible 

 was preparing to breed. 



93. Ardea caerulea Linn. LITTLE BLUE HERON. (200.) 

 This southern species, like the preceding, wanders northward in 

 small numbers after the breeding season, and a few are sometimes 

 found near New York. (See Group, main floor, opposite Case D.) 



*94. Ardea virescens Linn GREEN HERON. (201.) Breeds 

 from the Bay of Fundy southward. It is one of our commonest 

 Herons and is known under a great variety of names. It haunts 

 the banks of streams and ponds, and places its nest of sticks in a 

 bush or the lower branch of a tree. 



*95 Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius (Bodd.\ BLACK-CROWN- 

 ED NIGHT HERON ; QUAWK. (202.) Breeds from New Brunswick 

 southward. It nests in colonies, placing a small platform-like nest 

 in the upper branches of trees. There is a colony containing about 

 1000 pairs not far from New York City. The popular name 

 "Quawk", is derived from the call of the bird. 



96. Nycticorax violaceus (/>?.). YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT 

 HERON. (203.) Breeds from South Carolina southward and 

 occasionally strays up the coast as far as Massachusetts. There 

 is but one definite record for this region, that of a sp'ecimen taken 

 in April, near Freeport, Queens County, L. I. (Dutcher, Auk, X, 

 1893, p. 286). 



