502 BIKDS — AEDEID^. 



Ardea candidissima Gmelin. 



ILiittle AVtite EJgret. 



Garzetta oandidimima, Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. Rep. for 1860, 368, 377 ; Reprint, 1861, 10> 

 19. — Langdon, Revised List, Jonrn. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 184 ; Reprint, 18. 



Ardea candidisHma, Whkaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 573 ; Re- 

 print, 1875, 13. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 15 ; Jonrn. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 i, 1878, 117 ; Reprint, 8. 



Ardea candidissima, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 633. 

 Garzetta candidissima, Bonapaktb, Consp. Av., ii, 1855, 118. 



Adnlt with a long occipital cresr of decomposed feathers and similar dorsal plnmes, 

 latter recurved when perfect; similar, but not reoTirced plumes on the lower neck, which 

 is bare behind; lores, eyes and toes yellow ; bill and legs black, former yellow at base, 

 latter yellow at the lower part behind. Plumage always entirely white. Length, 24 ; 

 wing, 11-12; bill, 3 ; tarsus, 3^-4. 



Habitat, United States, southerly. North regularly to the Middle States, casually to 

 Massachusetts and even to Nova Scotia. Kansas. Mexico. West Indies. Central and 

 South America to Chili. Breeds throughout the regular United States range, and 

 resident in the Gulf States and farther south. 



Very rare or accidental. Mr. M. C. Reed, of Hudson, captured a speci- 

 men several years since in Ashtabula county. This bird had been pre- 

 viously wounded. Mr. Winslow records it from Northern Ohio, but may 

 refer to the same individual. Late in the summer of 1859, I saw five of 

 these birds at Granville, Licking county. These were apparently all 

 young. Mr. Langdon, on the authority of Mr. Dury notes one specimen 

 taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 



Although Dr. Coues states that the range of the last epecies and this 



Aedea cjerulea L. 



Xjlttle IBlixe fTerou. 



Florida cwrulea, Wheaton, Reprint, Ohio Agrio. Rpp. for 1861, 21 (probable). 

 Ardea cwrulea, Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin,, 1877, 15 (probable). 



Ardea cwrulea, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 2:i9. 

 Florida cwrulea, Baird, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 1858, 671. 



The Little Blue Heron probably occurs in the soathern portion of the State, but I am 

 not aware that it has been positively identified within our limits, though it occurs in 

 Southern Illinois, and has been seeii by Mr. Brewster in West Virginia. The following 

 is Dr. Coues description : Head of the adult with lengthened decomposed feathers, 

 those of the lower neck and scapulars, elongate and lanceolate ; no dorsal plnmes ; neck 

 bare behind, below. Size of the Snowy Heron. Adult slaty blue becoming purplish on 

 the head and neck ; bill and loral space blue, shading to black at the end ; eyes yellow, 

 legs black. Young pure white, but generally showing blue traces, by which it is distin- 

 guished from Snowy Heron, as well as by the color of the bill and feet, though at first 

 the legs are greenish-blue with yellow traces. 



