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egg).— Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 66S (entire U. S.; West Indies.); Cat. N. Am. 

 B. 1859, n. 487.— A. & E. Newton, Ibis, i. 18.59, 263 (St. Croix, W. I.; breed- 

 ing ?).—Scl. & Salv. ib. 220 (Guatemala); P. Z. S. 1859, 226 (Guatemala); 

 1870, 323 (Galapagos); 1873, 511 (Venezuela); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 125 (Mexico; 

 Venezuela; Antilles).— Bryant, Pr. Best. Soc. vii. 1859, 120 (Bahamas). — 

 Max. J. f. O. 1859, 86 (descr. etc.). — Martens, ib. 219 (Bermudas). — Willis, 

 Smithsonian Rep. for 1858 (1859), 284 (Nova Scotia). — Heermann, Pacific 

 E. R. Eep. X. 1859, pi. vi. 63 (California).— Coop. & Suckl. Pacific R. E. 

 Rep. xii. ii. 1860, 228 (Pugefc Sound).— Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, n. 185 ; 

 ib. 1874, — (Ohio; summer; very common). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. vii. 1860, 

 308 (Cuba) ; Pr. Boston Soc. 1875, 446.— Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, 81 (.Jamaica).— 

 Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861, 155 (Bahamas).— Gundl. ib. 3.38; 1862, 82 (Cuba).— 

 Barnard, Smithsonian Rep. for 1860 (1861), 433 (Chester Co. Penn.).— Taylor, 

 Ibis, iv. 1862, 129 (Florida).— Hayden, Rep. 1862, 173.— Boardm. Pr. Boston 

 Soc. ix. 1862, 128 (Maine; common; breeds). — Verrill, ib. 138 (Anticosti) ; Pr. 

 Essex Inst. iii. 1862, 152 (Oxford Co. Maine; breeds). — Coues & Prentiss, 

 Smithsonian Rep. for 1861 (1862), 415 (Disfc. Col.; in summer). — Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y. viii. 1863, 12 (Isth. Panama); ib. viii. 1864, 99 (Sombrero, W. I.); 

 viii. 1866, 292 (vie. of New York City); is. 1869, 142 (Costa Rica); ib. 210 

 (Merida, Yucatan): Pr. Boston Soc. 1871, — (Tres Marias, W. Mexico; rare); 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. ii, 1874,310 (Mazatlan; Tres Marias: resident); Bull. Nat. 

 Mus. n. 4, 1876, 48 (Tehuantepec City).— Blakiston, Ibis, v. 1863, 129 (Sas- 

 katchewan). — Allen, Pr. Essex Inst. iii. 1864, 76 (Massachusetts; breeds); 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. i. 1865, 501 (Iowa); ib. 1874, 67 ; Bull. M. C. Z. ii. 1871, 358 

 (Florida); iii. 1872, 182 (Kansas; Utah).— March, Pr. A. N. S. Phila. xvi. 

 1864, 63 (Jamaica; abundant). — Sal vin. Ibis, 1865, 193 (Guatemala); Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. ix. 1875, 497 (Galapagos).— Hoy, Smithsonian Rep. for 1864 (1865), 

 438 (Missouri).— Coues, Pr. A. N. S. Phila. 1866, 95 (Ft. Whipple, Arizona) ; 

 Ibis, 1866, 283 (Colorado River); ib. 269 (Southern Calif.); Pr. Essex Inst. 

 1868, 289 ; Pr. A. N. S. Phila. 1871, 33 (Fort Macon, N. C.) ; Key, 1872, 267 : 

 Check List, 1873,87, n. 449; B.N. W. 1874, 517.— Caban. J. f. O. iv. 1856, 349 

 (Cuba). — Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 31 (S. Texas). — McIlwr. Pr. Essex Inst. v. 

 1866, 91.— Butcher, Pr, A. N. S. Phila. 1868, 150 (Laredo, Texas).— Brown, 

 Ibis, iv. 1868, 424 (Vancouver I.).— Sundev. Oefv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1869, 589 

 (St. Bartholomew, W. I.). — Cooper, Am. Nat. iii. 1869, 82. — Stearnes, ib. 

 401.— TuRNB. B. E. Penn. 1869, 37 ; Phila. ed. 28.— Frantzius, J. f. O. 1869, 

 376 (Costa Rica).— Dall & Bann. Tr. Chicago Acad. i. 1869, 289 (Sitka; 

 rare).— Ma YN. Nat. Guide, 1870, 143 (Mass.) ; Pr. Boston Soc. 1871, — (New 

 Hampshire) ; xiv, 1872, 383.— Gray, Handlist, iii. 1871, 27, n. 10104 (United 

 States; West Indies). — Trippe, Pr. Boston Soc. xv. 1872, 240 (Iowa). — Aiken, 

 ib. 209.— Grayson, ib. 285 (Tres Marias).— Ridgw. Am. Nat. vi. 1872, 731; 

 Bull. Essex Inst. Jan. 1875, 39 (Nevada) ; Field and Forest, June, 1877, 211 

 (Colorado) ; Orn. 40th Par. 187- 327, 330, 341, 369, 390, 616 (Sacramento, Cal.; 

 Trnckee Valley, Nevada : breeding on " The Pyramid ", Pyramid Lake). — 

 Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 9.— Trippe, Pr. Bost. Soc. xvi, 1873, 240.— Scott, 

 ib. 227.— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Survey Terr. 1873, 715 ; Am. Nat. 1874, 89.— 

 Henshaw, Ann. Lye. N. Y. xi. June, 1874, — (Utah; resident); Orn. Wheeler's 

 Survey, 1875, 464 (Lowell, Ariz.); ib. 1876, 273 (coast Southern Cal.; abun- 

 dant).— Nelson, Bull. Essex Inst, viii, Dec. 1876, 131, 153 (N. E. Ills. Apr. to 

 Dee.).— Bouc. Cat. Av. 1876, 49, n. 1373 (N. Am.; W. I.).— Langdon, Cat. 

 Birds Cine. 1877, 15. 



Ardeola herodias, Albrecht, J. f. 0. 1862, 206 (Jamaica). — Hurdis, Contr. Orn. 1850, 11 

 (Bermudas ; resid.; breeds). 



Ard,ea hudsonias, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, 238, n. 18 (based on Ardea freli-hudaonis, Briss. I. 

 c.).— Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 632, n. 18.— Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 1790, 693, n. 57.— 

 Turt. S. N. i. 1806, 379 {Bed-shouldered Heron ; North America). 



