142 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [4] 



The following list of .North American water birds is complete up to 

 date. The numbers correspond strictly with those of the latest " Smith- 

 sonian" catalogue (Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 

 21), and the nomenclature is essentially the same, a few changes being 

 found necessary in the light of more recent investigations, while several 

 species subsequently added to the fauna have been interpolated in the 

 proper places. The range of each species is indicated in general terms, 

 followed by a list of the specimens exhibited. 



An asterisk prefixed to the number of a specimen indicates that the 

 specimen in question is a duplicate and may be exchanged. 



Order HERODIONES.— The Alteicial Waders. 



Family ARDEID^.— The Heron Tribe. 



486. Artie a occidentals Aud. Great White Heron ; Wur- 



demann's Heron. [488, 489.] Southern Florida. 

 Accidental (?) in Southern Illinois. (Whole of "Aus- 

 troriparian" Province?) Cuba; Jamaica. 



486*. Ardea wardi Ridgw. Ward's Heron. Southwestern 

 Florida (vicinity of Oyster Bay). 



a. No. 77946. $ ad. Hernando County, Florida, March 30, 1879; 



J.W. Milner.t 



b. No. 77947. $ juv. Hernando County, Florida, March 19, 1879; 



J. W. Milner. 



487. Ardea herodias Linn. Great Blue Heron. [487.] Whole 



of temperate North America, Middle America, and 

 West Indies ; Galapagos ; Venezuela. 



a. No. 84576. $ ad. Knox County, Indiana, June 11, 1877 ; R. Ridg- 



way. 



b. No. 84578. 5 juv. Wabash County, Illinois, September 26, 1870; 



R. Ridgway. 



[488.] Ardea cinerea Linn. Common European Heron. 

 Europe and other parts of the Old World; acci- 

 dental in Greenland. 



489. Herodias egretta (Gmel.). American Egret. [486, 486a.] 

 Whole of America, except colder regions. 



*«. No. 86199. Ad., nuptial plumage. Gainesville, Florida, April, 

 1882 ; J. Bell. 



Mexico, January, 1863; J. Xautus. *b. No. 30455, 2 ad., Costa Rica; Dr. A. 



von Frantzius. 

 American Fish Hawk, or Osprey, Pandion haliwtus carolinensis (Gm ). — a. No. 77281, 



$ ad., Hernando County, Florida, February 24, 1876; Givene Smith, b. No. 84479, 



$ juv., Mount Carmel, 111., September 5, 1870; R. Ridgway. 

 tThe name of the collector of the specimen is given, whenever known, iu preference 

 to that of the donor, though of course the two are often identical. 



