ORDER HERODIONES. 97 



now breeds locally in the United States from North Carolina to Louisiana ; 

 winters from Florida southward; casual in British Columbia, Ontario, Massa- 

 chusetts, and Nova Scotia. 



6. Egretta candidissima brfiwsteri Thayer & Bangs. Brewster's Ejret. 

 [197o.] 

 Egretta candidissima brewsteri Thayer & Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, IV, April 29, 1909, 40. (San Jos6 Island, Gulf of California.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California. 



Genus DICHROMANASSA Ridgwat. 



Dichromanassa Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, 

 1878, 246. Type, by orig. desig., Ardea rufa Boddaert = Ardea ru- 

 fescens Gmelin. 



Dichromanassa rufgscens (Gmelin). Reddish Egret. [198.] 

 Ardea rufescens Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 628. (Louisiana.) 



Range. — Southern North America. Breeds from Lower Cali- 

 fornia and Gulf of Mexico to Jamaica and G.uatemala; winters from 

 .southern Florida southward; casual in Colorado and southern Illinois. 



Genus HYDRANASSA Baird. 



Hydranassa Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 660. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Ardea ludoviciana Wilson = Egretta ruficollis Gosse. 



HydranSssa tricolor (Muller). 



Range. — Warm temperate eastern North America, Central 

 America, West Indies, and northern South America. 



a. [Hydranassa tricolor tricolor. Extralimital.] 



b. Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. [199.] 

 Egretta ruficollis Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 338. (Jamaica.) 



Range. — Southern North America. Breeds from North Carolina and the 

 Gulf States to the West Indies, Mexico (both coasts), and Central America; 

 winters from South Carolina southward; casual in Indiana, New Jersey, and 

 Long Island. 



