98 CHECK-LIST OF NOBTH AMEEICAN BIEDS. 



Genus FLORIDA Baikd. 



Florida Baird, Rep. Expl. & Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, 671. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardea ccerulea Linn^us. 



Fldrida caerulea (Linn^us). Little Blue Heron. [200.] 



Ardea coeridea Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 143. (Carolina.) 



Range. — North and South America. Formerly bred from Mis- 

 souri, Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey to western Mexico and south 

 to Argentina and Peru; in the United States now breeds locally on 

 the Gulf coast and in South Carolina; wanders casually to Nebraska, 

 Wisconsin, Ontario, New England, and Nova Scotia; winters from 

 South Carolina southward. 



Genus BUTORIDES Blyth. 



Butorides Blyth, Catal. Birds Mus. Asiat. Soc, 1849 (1852?), 281. Type, 

 by monotypy, Ardea javanica Hoespibld. 



Butorides virescens (Linn^eus). 



Range. — United States south totCentral America and the West 

 Indies, and probably northern South America. 



o. Butorides virescens virescens (Linn^us). Green Heron. [201.] 



Ardea virescens LiNNaiTJs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 144. (Virginia and 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from southern South Dakota, 

 northern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and Nova Scotia 

 south to the West Indies; winters from the West Indies southward, and 

 rarely in southeastern United States; casual in Colorado. 



6. Butorides virescens frSzari (Bhewster). Frazar's Green Heron. [201o.] 

 Ardea virescens frazari Bkewstee, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 83. (La Paz, 

 Lower California.) 



Range. — Lower California (vicinity of La Paz). 



c. Butorides virescens dnthonyi (Mbabns). Anthony's Green Heron. [201c.] 

 Ardea virescens 07i<Aoni/i|MEAiiNs, Auk, XII, July, 1895, 257. (Seven 

 Wells, Salton River, Colorado Desert, Lower California.) 



