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650. Plegadis guarauna. 
651. Eudocimus albus. 
652. ruber. 
653. Ajaja rosea. 
648. Tantalops loculator. 
654. Mycteria americana. 
655. Ardea herodias. 
656. occidentalis. 
000. wardi. 
657. cinerea. 
658. Herodias egretta. 
659. Garzetta candidissima. 
660. Hydranassa tricolor. 
661. Dichromanassa rufa. 
662. Florida ccerulea. 
663. Butorides rufescens. 
664. Nyctiardea grisea nevia. 
665, Nycterodius violaceus. 
666. Botaurus mugitans. 
667. Ardetta exilis. 
APPENDIX. 
UNION LIST, 1886. 
187. Plegadis guarauna. 
184. Guara alba. 
[185.] rubra. 
188. Ajaja ajaja. 
188. Tantalus loculator. 
[189.] Mycteria americana. 
194. Ardea herodias. 
192. occidentalis. 
193. wardi. 
[195.] cinerea. 
196. egretta. 
197. candidissima. 
199. tricolor ruficollis. 
198. rufa. 
200. ceerulea, 
201. Ardea virescens. 
202. Nycticorax nycticorax nevius. 
203. violaceus. 
190. Botaurus lentiginosus. 
191. exilis. 
000. [Not admitted in the List.] 
667 bis. Add: Ardetta neoxena. FLoripa Dwarr Bitrern. Crown, back and tail 
black, glossed with green. Sides of head and throat chestnut, the feathers on the back of 
the neck tipped with greenish-black. Breast and under parts rufous chestnut, nearly uni- 
form, shading into blackish on the sides; under tail-coverts dull black; upper wing-coverts 
rufous chestnut, the under ones paler chestnut; all the remiges slaty plumbeous. Length 
10.80; wing 4.30; tarsus 1.40; bill 1.80. Southwestern Florida. The Auk, April, 1886, 
p. 262. 
668. Grus americana. 
669. canadensis. 
670. pratensis. 
671. Aramus pictus. 
672. Parra gymnostoma. 
673. Rallus longirostris crepitans. 
674. longirostris obsoletus. 
675. longirostris saturatus, 
676. elegans. 
204. Grus americana. 
205. canadensis. 
206. mexicana. 
207. Aramus giganteus. 
[288.] Jacana gymnostoma. 
211. Rallus longirostris crepitans. 
210. obsoletus. 
211a. longirostris saturatus. 
208. elegans. 
209. beldingi. 
676 bis. Add: Rallus beldingi. Bripine’s Rai. Most like A. elegans, but darker 
and richer colored throughout, the white bars of the flanks much narrower, the blackish bars 
very distinct. Wing 5.70; tail 2.50; bill 2.15; tarsus 1.90. A species which takes its 
place in .the Key under our ruling to admit the islands pertaining to Lower California. 
Espiritu Santo Island, Gulf of California. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1882, p. 345. 
677. Rallus virginianus. 
678. Porzana maruetta. 
679. carolina. 
680. noveboracensis. 
681. jamaicensis. 
212. Rallus virginianus. ’ 
(213.] Porzana porzana. 
214. carolina. 
215. noveboracensis. 
216. jamaicensis. 
