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105 (196) American egret 
Ardea egretta Gmel. 
106 (197) *Snowy heron! 
Ardea candidissima Gmel. 
107 (199) Louisiana heron? 
Ardea tricolor ruficollis (Gosse) 
108 (200) Little blue heron 
Ardea caerulea Linn. 
1Formerly an uncommon summer resident and evidently bred. See Giraud’s Birds of 
Long Island, 1844, p. 284. A pair of these birds may possibly have nested near Sayville, 
Long Island, in 1885. See Auk, 3:435. : 
?One Long Island record. See DeKay’s Birds, 1844, p, 223. See also Giraud’s Birds of 
Long Island, 1844, p. 281-82. 
