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f?. Adult with sides of forehead (to considerably in front of eyes), together 
with whole crown and occiput (beneath crest), including longer crest- 
feathers, uniform deep black; forehead and centre of crown pure 
white, without dusky streaks; shoulder-knots entirely deep black, 
or (rarely) narrowly streaked with white, and without admixture 
of rusty; lowermost wing-coverts without white on outer webs; 
outer web of exterior tail-feather without distinct wedge-shaped 
space of white; breast, belly, and anal region deep black (the last 
entirely 60), the breast and belly broadly striped with white; gray 
of upper parts of a deep plumbeous tint. 
g. Larger, with legs and feet yellowish brown or olive-yellowish ; 
length about 48.00-54.00, wing 19.50-21.00 (20. 00), tail 7.15-8.00 
(7.58), exposed culmen 5.90-6.90 (6.25), depth of bill at base 
1.10-1.30 (1.19), tarsus 7.85-8.40 (8.19), middle toe 4.65-5.15 
(4.83), bare portion of tibia 4.45-5.60 (5.05). Hab. Florida, 
chiefly (7?) on western side; south to Oyster Bay, north to 
Gainesville........c.sccceeee 193. A. wardi Ripcw. Ward's Heron. 
g: Smaller, with black or dusky legs and feet, the tibia, only, yel- 
lowish; length about 40.00-48.00, wing 18.00-19.50 (18.58), tail 
7.00-7. 50 (7.23), exposed culmen 5.45-5.95 (5.68), depth of bill 
at base 1.05-1.17 (1.14), tarsus 6.75-7.85 (7.16), middle toe 3.90- 
4.50 (4.18), naked portion of tibia 4.00-4.50 (4.20). Hab. Whole 
of temperate North America (except middle and southern 
Florida) ; north to Hudson’s Bay and Sitka, south through Mid- 
dle America to Colombia and Venezuela (including Curagao) ; 
Bermuda; Galapagos? 
194. A. herodias Linn. Great Blue Heron. 
A. wuerdemanni is probably merely an intermediate plumage connecting 
A. occidentalis with A. wardi, the three forms doubtless merely color-phases of 
one species, for which A. occidentalis is the older name. 
(13.) Page 131, Ardea pealei: 
This is unquestionably a white phase of A. rufescens. 
(14.) Page 132, under Ardea virescens : 
201a. Ardea virescens frazari Brewst. Frazar’s Green meron.’ 
Much darker than A. virescens, with the coloration much more uniform, the 
neck very dark purplish chestnut, strongly glaucous in certain lights. Hab. 
Southern portion of Lower California (vicinity of La Paz). 
201. Ardea virescens anthonyi Mzarns. Anthony's Green Heron.’ 
Larger and much paler throughout than A. virescens ; chestnut of the neck 
much paler and more cinnamomeous; white streaks of foreneck and white mar- 
1 Ardea virescens frazari Brewst., Auk, v. Jan. 1888, 83. 
2 Ardea virescens anthonyi Mrarns, Auk, xii. July, 1895, 257. 
