ARDEin.E — THE IIKU0N8 - DfTORIDES. 



61 



Kpy, 1872, 2fl«! Check LlMt, 1873, no. 4.17 •, Itinlx N. W. 1874, 5'J2. — IIehiienow, .1. I. o. 



1877. 2:.5. 

 Iliil<iriili.s viirm-ii^, DiiN.vr. Ciiii>ii. M. ISriri, 12S. — Baiuh, Kinls N. Am. 18.18, (I7tl ; Cut. N. Am. 



U. I85lt, mi. i'Xi. — IliixiW. Xoiii. N. Am. II. 1881, im. 4iM. — C'ole«, CLtck List, 2U id. 188J, 



im. 0(1:1. 

 Cniliin-ili- III Louhinm-, Wvrv. I'l. Kill. 1770-84, |.l. 000 (luhilt). 

 t'mbier tnehili; tl In Miirliiiiqiu; IIikk. I'l. Kill. 012 (youiiif). 

 Onvii Iffi-iiii, L.Mii. .Syimii, III. 178."., t)8. 



Liiniaitiiia J/iiuii, I.AIII. t.c. 81. 



.//■«/..( liidnviciiiiiii, (i.Mi'.i,. .'^. N. I. ii. 1788, (!;!n, no. .19 (bnscd on I'l. Enl. 009). 



1. nine ill run, var. II., I.AIII. .S)i,.i|i. 111. I7,s,i, 7,1 (Ijiictii I'lmilottu's Sound). 



Ardea chlurnplrrii, Wituit. Tiibl. V. K. 178:), j.l. 000. 



Cniurnmn maciilalii, Buim. t.i'. jil. 012. 



( Ardiit vinjitlii, (i.MKi.. .S. N. I. ii. 1788, 043. 



Hah. Tliir wliulc of tciiiiMTato Xoitli Ainerica, West Iiidii's, Middle Aiucrii'ii, mid northern 

 South Aiiii'iira, to W'lif/.iii'la ; iiortli to Canada West and ()rej,'on ; aliundant l>oth in tliu I'acilio 

 Stute.M nnd Eiwtern Province, Imt niiparently wanting in the Middle I'roviiite ; IJermiulas. 



^i: Char. Adull: Kntiie iiileiini, inrlnding oi'eii)ital ereit, flossy dark nietullic liottle-green ; 

 rest of tiu' head and neck, e.xcept tlimat ami I'oreneik, ricli elie.stnnt, varyinj,' I'roni 11 cinnamon 

 sbftde to a line puridish niuroon ; bare orbital space bordered posteriorly with greenish black, from 



the lower part of wliioh projects backward, from the rictus, a short stripe of the Rnnic ; Wow this, 

 alonj; the upper ed},'e of the malar re},'ion, a narrow stripe of white, the lower malar feathers beinj,' 

 mi.xed black and rufous, formiii>; another stripe ; throat and foreneck, from chin to ju^'ulum, white, 

 marked with broad lon<;itudinal daslies of dusky. Lower jjarts ash-j^ray, the lininj,' of the winj; 

 somewhat spotted, and distinctly bordered, outwardly, witli creamy white. Scapular plumes glau- 

 cous-plumbeous, with a green rellection in certain lights, the shafts white. Wing-coverts and 

 rectrices brilliant metallic bottle-green, the formerdistinclly bordered, narrowly, with fulvous-white ; 

 tiiese boiilers on the lesser-coverts, more rusty or fulvous ; rectrices immaculate bottle-green ; remiges 

 ami prinmry-coverts plumU'ous, with a green rellection, the inner primaries and adjoining second- 

 aries with narrow crescentic tips of wiiite, the coverts with terminal deltoid spots of the same. 

 Bill deep black, the lower mandible sometimes partly yellowish or greenisli ; lores and orbits vary- 

 ing from olive-green to brigbt yellow ; iris giuuboge-yellow ; legs and feet olive-green or olive-yellow, 

 tlie scutellic more greenish ; claws horn-color. Y'nuiig : Pileum, including crest, as in tlie adult, 

 but usually streaketl witli dark rusty anteriorly ; sides of the head and neck dull dark rusty, indis- 

 tinctly stivaked with light ochraceous, or butf ; lower i)art8 white, tinged wivh bulf, and striped with 

 dusky. Back, scapulars, an<l rump uniform dull dusky-gr some of the feathers indistinctly 

 bordered with rusty ; wings and tail as in the adult, but . ^Iit borderi^ to hirger wing-coverts 

 more ochraceous, and the two or three middle rows marked with njedial wedge-shaped dashes of 



