ORDER HERODIONES. I37 



191). Ardea tricolor ruflcoUic (Gosse). 



Louisiana Heron. 



Egntta rnjkollis Gosse, B. Jamaica, 1847, 338. 



Ardea tricolor rujicollis RiLtGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 



[B 484, C 154, R 492, C 660.] 



Hab. Gulf States, Mexico, Central America, and West Indies, 

 casually northward to New Jersey and Indiana. 



Subgenus FLORIDA Bairo. 

 Florida Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 671. Type, Ardea caerulea Linn. 



200. Ardea ccemlea Linn. 



Little Blue Uerou. 



Ardea caerulea Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 143. 



[B 490, C 456, R 493, C 662.] 



Hab. New Jersey, Illinois, and Kansas, southward through Central 

 America and the West Indies to Guiana and New Grenada ; casually 

 north on the Atlantic coast to Massachusetts and Maine. 



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Subgenus BUTORIDES Blyth. 



Butorides "Blyth, 1849," Bonap. Consp. II. 1855, 128. Type, 

 Ardea javanica Horsf. 



201. Ardea virescens Linn. 



Green Heron. 



Ardea virescens Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 144. 



[B 493, C 457, R 494, C 663.] 



Hab. Canada and Oregon, southward to Northern South America 

 and the West Indies ; rare or absent in the Middle Province. 



Genus NYCTICORAZ Stephens. 



Subgenus NYCTICORAX. 



Nycticorax Steph. Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 18 19, 608. 

 nycticorax Linn. 



Type, Ardea 



