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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Moriches, 
  L. 
  I. 
  July 
  1889. 
  (T. 
  M. 
  Lawrence). 
  Butcher, 
  Notes 
  

   Shelter 
  Island, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Apr. 
  7, 
  24, 
  1891. 
  (Byram). 
  Butcher, 
  Notes 
  

   Montauk, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Apr. 
  20, 
  1898. 
  Butcher, 
  Notes 
  

   East 
  Rockaway, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Aug. 
  1899. 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  17: 
  69 
  

   Hempstead 
  bav, 
  L. 
  I. 
  Summer 
  1900. 
  Braislin, 
  Auk, 
  19: 
  146 
  

  

  Also 
  reported 
  as 
  seen 
  at 
  Oneonta 
  by 
  Yager 
  in 
  August 
  1899; 
  and 
  at 
  Binghamton, 
  May 
  

   8-12, 
  1900 
  by 
  Miss 
  Lillian 
  Hyde 
  

  

  Butorides 
  virescens 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Green 
  Heron 
  

  

  Plate 
  23 
  

  

  Ardea 
  virescens 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:144 
  

  

  BeKav. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  224, 
  fig. 
  188 
  

   A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  201 
  

  

  buton'des, 
  Lat. 
  butor, 
  bittern, 
  and 
  Gr. 
  elSos, 
  resemblance; 
  vires' 
  cens, 
  Lat., 
  

  

  greenish 
  

  

  Description. 
  The 
  top 
  of 
  head 
  crested 
  and 
  greenish 
  black 
  ; 
  rest 
  of 
  head, 
  

   and 
  the 
  sides 
  and 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  neck 
  rich 
  chestnut, 
  washed 
  with 
  vinaceous; 
  

   throat 
  and 
  narrow 
  Hne 
  down 
  the 
  foreneck 
  whitish 
  streaked 
  with 
  blackish; 
  

   back 
  and 
  wing 
  coverts 
  green, 
  the 
  latter 
  edged 
  with 
  buffy 
  white, 
  and 
  the 
  

   elongated 
  interscapular 
  feathers 
  washed 
  with 
  glaucous 
  or 
  bluish 
  gray; 
  

   under 
  parts 
  brownish 
  ash; 
  quills 
  and 
  tail 
  dusky 
  with 
  a 
  plumbeous 
  shade; 
  

   bill 
  dusky, 
  base 
  of 
  lower 
  mandible 
  and 
  lores 
  yellow; 
  legs 
  greenish 
  yellow. 
  

   Youne: 
  Similar 
  but 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  more 
  rustv 
  than 
  chestnut 
  and 
  

   streaked 
  with 
  ocherous 
  buff, 
  no 
  dorsal 
  plumes; 
  the 
  wing 
  coverts 
  broadly 
  

   margined 
  with 
  buffy. 
  

  

  Length 
  15.5-22 
  inches; 
  extent 
  24-26; 
  wing 
  6.4-8; 
  tail 
  2.65; 
  bill 
  2-2.5; 
  

   tarsus 
  2; 
  tibia 
  bare 
  .g-i. 
  

  

  Field 
  marks. 
  At 
  a 
  distance 
  the 
  Little 
  green 
  heron 
  does 
  not 
  appear 
  

   green 
  and 
  the 
  old 
  birds 
  are 
  much 
  more 
  likely 
  to 
  show 
  a 
  bluish 
  cast 
  from 
  the 
  

   plumbeous 
  shading 
  of 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  the 
  wing 
  quills. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  distinguished 
  

   from 
  the 
  bitterns, 
  the 
  onh' 
  other 
  small 
  herons 
  common 
  in 
  the 
  State, 
  b}- 
  its 
  

   prevailing 
  dark 
  coloration, 
  while 
  the 
  bitterns 
  are 
  of 
  a 
  A^ellowish 
  brown 
  or 
  

   ocherous 
  hue. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  The 
  Green 
  heron 
  is 
  coinmon 
  in 
  tropical 
  and 
  temperate 
  

   America 
  as 
  far 
  north 
  as 
  Manitoba 
  and 
  New 
  Brimswick. 
  In 
  New 
  York 
  it 
  is 
  

   •quite 
  gencralh" 
  distributed, 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  region, 
  and 
  j^robably 
  

  

  