242 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
Family ARDEIDA:. 
Sub-family ARDEINA. 
Genus ARDEA, Linn. 
121. Ardea herodias, Linn. Great Blue Heron. 
Ardea herodias, Linn., Gm., Lath., Wils., Temm., Bp., Sw..& Rich., Nutt., 
Aud., Gir., Bd., Scl., Newton, and authors generally. 
Ardea hudsonias, Linn., Gm., Lath. _ 
Length, 42; wing, 184. 
Hab.—North America to Hudson’s Bay and Sitka; south to Guate- 
mala and Galapagos; West Indies; breeds throughout its range; win- 
ters in the south. (Coues.) 
Of this fine species Colonel Wedderburn says (Nat. in B., p. 38): 
“Many of these birds arrive in autumn, and a few remain throughout 
the year. In 1846 the nest of this bird, containing two eggs, was found 
amongst the mangrove trees at Hungry Bay. The Rev. H. B. Tristram 
kept one of these Herons alive in his garden (at the parsonage in Ire- 
land Island), which was once seen to seize aGround Dove and swallow 
it entire.” I made numerous inquiries, and kept a careful lookout, but 
was unable to ascertain whether any second instance occurred of the 
nest being found.. Most of the examples obtained or seen during my 
Stay were in immature plumage. <A féw were always to be seen singly 
among the islands in the Great Sound and Castle Harbor, being very 
wary and hard to approach. 
122. Ardea egretta, (Gm.) Gray. Great White Egret. 
Ardea egretta, Gm., Lath., Wils., Nutt., Aud., Coues. 
Herodias egretta, Gray, Bd., Coues & Prent., Allen, Coues, Dress., Lawr., 
Mayn. 
Herodias alba var. egretta, Ridg. 
Herodias egretta var. californica, Bd. 
Ardea leuce, 11., Licht. 
Egretta leuce, Bp. 
Herodias leuce, Brehm. 
Ardea alba, Bp. 
Length, 39; wing, 154. 
Hab. oid States southerly, straweline northward to Nova Scotia, 
Massachusetts, Canada West, and Minnesota; West Indies, Mexico, 
Central and South America. (Coues.) 
Two were killed at Hungry Bay in 1840; several were subsequently 
seen, but not obtained. A colored youth described two of these birds to 
me as having been seen by him in Warwick Swamp in October, 1874, 
