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Casual in District of Columbia; Pennsylvania (Waynesburg) ; 

 New York (near Cohoes) ; ? Ehode Island (Natick) ; Massachu- 

 setts (Buzzards Bay) ; Vermont (Lunenburg) ; New Hampshire 

 (Wakefield) ; and Ontario (Guelph and Beaumaris). 



Type locality.— Yalley of the south fork of the Humboldt Kiver, 

 Nevada. 



(??) Ardea (Orus) mexicana Muixer, Syst. Nat., Suppl., 1776, 110 (Mexico; 

 based on Boddaert). 



[Ardea canadensis] p Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 676. 



Orus mexicana Vieuxot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat, xii, 1817, 531.— Ridqwat, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 356, part.— Ameeican Oenithologists' Union, 

 Check List, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 206, part; ed. 3, 1910, 100, part.— 

 Ralph and Bagg, Trans. Oneida Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 110 (New York Mills, 

 Oneida County, N. Y., 1 specimen, 1873). — Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Scl. 

 Philadelphia, 1893, 35 (lake region, British Columbia, breeding). — Shabpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 254, part (Orcas Island, Vancouver 

 Island).— Jour, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1894, 790 (Hacienda An- 

 gostura, San Luis Potosi).— MEERnx (J. C), Auk, xiv, 1897, 351 (Fort 

 Sherman, Idaho, probably breeding). — Btjtleb, Rep. State Geol. Indi- 

 ana for 1897 (1898), 670 (breeding "in recent years" in Carroll, Fulton, 

 Lake, and Starke Counties, northern Indiana). — Bbewstee, Auk, xviii, 

 1901, 274 (Wakefield, N. H., 1 specimen, 1896 or 1897) .—Woodcock, 

 Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. BuU. 68, 1902, 18 (Oregon Range).— Aij.en 

 (G. M.), Proc. Manchester Inst. Arts and Sci., iv, 1902, 82 (Wakefield, 

 N. H., in 1896 or 1897). — ^Kumuen and Hollisteb, Wisconsin Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Bull. 3, 1903, 37 (Wisconsin; habits).— Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 

 447 (Toronto, Ontario; 1 pair, no date). — ^Widmann, Birds Missouri, 

 1907, 57 (once common migrant, now rare). — ^Woodetjfp, Chicago Acad. 

 Sci. Bull. 6, 1907, 57 (Chicago area; rare migrant). — ^Anderson, Proc. 

 Davenport Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 205 (Iowa; habits). — Cobt, Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. Publ. 131, 1909, 377 (Illinois and Wisconsin records).— 

 VisHEB, Wils. Bull., xxii, 1910, 115 (Sanborn County, S. Dak., breeding; 

 habits; voice).— Baton, Birds New York, i, 1910, 269, pi. 24 (Albion and 

 Clarendon, N. Y.). — Todd, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 368 (near Plymouth, Huron 

 County, Ohio, Apr. 11, 1911).— Whxett, Pacific Coast Avif., No. 7, 1912, 32 

 (common migrant in s. California) ; Condor, xxi, 1919, 200 (Malheur Lake, 

 etc., se. Oregon, breeding). — Babbows, Michigan Bird Life, 1912, 149. — 

 Wood (N. A.), 14th Rep. Michigan Acad. Sci., 1912, 160 (UnadiUa, Liv- 

 ingston County, Mich., flock of about 20, Apr. 19, 1911) ; Auk, xxxviii, 

 1921, 590 (Washtenaw County, Mich., flock of 15, May 30, 1880, breeding in 

 1896; Whiteflsh Point, 1912, 1914, said to breed) ; Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. 

 Misc. Publ. 10, 1923, 25 (North Dakota records) .—Foebush, Game Birds, 

 Wildfowl, and Shore Birds, 1912, 483 (history, etc.)— Cooke, U. S. Dept Agr. 

 Bull. 128, 1914, 10, fig. 3, part (range and migration routes). — Geinnell 

 (J.), Pacific Coast Avif., No. 11, 1915, 45 (summer visitant mainly in Cali- 

 fornia ; breeding in ne. California, probably on northern high Sierra Nevada 

 and from San Joaquin Valley south to Tulare Lake; wintering in San 

 Joaquin VaUey). — Bbooks (A.), Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 36 (Sumas, British Co- 

 lumbia, breeding up to 1902; still breeding near New Westminster). — 

 MuNBO, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 65 (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, common 

 migrant, occasionally breeding). — Swabth, Condor, xxi, 1919, 212, 213 in 

 text (near Corcoran, Kings County, Calif., Nov. 17, 1918, descr.). — Tav- 



