96 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



c. Ardea herodias wdrdi Ridgwat. Ward's Heron. [1946.] 



Ardea wardi Ridgwat, Bull. Nuttall Om. Club, VII, Jan., 1882, 5. 

 (Oyster Bay, Florida.) 



Range. — Florida, and the Gulf coast to Texas. 



[Ardea cinerea Linn^us. European Heron. [195.] 



Ardea cinerea Linn^tjs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. (Sweden.) 

 Range. — Most of the Eastern Hemisphere; accidental in southern 

 Greenland.] 



Genus HERODIAS Boie. 



Herodias Boie, Isis, X, 1822, 559. Type, by subs, desig., Ardea egretta 

 Gmelin (Gray, 1855.) 



Herodias egr§tta (Gmelin). Egret. [196.] 



Ardea egretta Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 629. (Cayenne.) 



Range. — Temperate and tropical America. Breeds in Oregon 

 and California, and from North Carolina, Florida, the Gulf coast, and 

 Mexico south to Patagonia; formerly bred north to New Jersey and 

 Wisconsin; winters from the Gulf of Mexico southward; casual in 

 Manitoba, Quebec, New England, and Nova Scotia. 



Genus EGRETTA T. Fobster. 



Egretta Foester, Synop. Catal. Brit. Birds, 1817, 59. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Ardea garzetta Linn^us. 



EgrStta candidissima (Gmelin). 



Range. — South America and North America north nearly to 

 northern border of the United States. 



a. Egretta candidissima candidissima (Gmelw). Snowy Egret. [197.] 



Ardea candidissima Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 633. (Cartagena, 

 Colombia.) 



Range. — Temperate and tropical America. Formerly bred from Oregon, 

 Nebraska, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey south to Chile and Argentina; 



