BIRDS OB' NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 11 



Sutter Counties; Imperial Valley?) ; Wyoming (Yellowstone Park) ; 

 Colorado (Fort Collins; Loveland) ; and New Mexico (Fort Thorn). 

 In recent years recorded only from the Great Plains area on migra- 

 tion ; southern Texas in winter. 

 Type locality. — Hudson Bay. 



[Ardea^ amerlcwm Linnaexts, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 142 ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 234 

 ( South Carolina ; based on Qrus americana alba Catesby, Carolina, i, 75, 

 pi. 75; Edwards, Av., 132, pi. 132).— Gmeun, Syst. Nat., i. pt. 2, 1789, 621.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., li, 1790, 675. 



A7-fl.ea americana Foester, Phllos. Trans., Ixii, 1772, 409 (York Fort, Hudson 

 Bay).— BoDDAEKT, Tabl. PI. Bnl., 1783, 53.— Ttxbton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 

 372.— Wilson, Amer. Orn., viii, 1814, 20, pi. 64, fig. 3. 



Alrdea] americana Bonapabtb, Journ. Acad. Nat Sci. Philadelphia, v, pt. i, 

 1825, 66 (crit.) ; Obs. Wilson's Amer. Orn., 1826, 178. 



Orus americana VrEnxoT, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., xiil, 1817, 557. — Stephens, 

 Shaw's Gen. Zool., xi, pt. 2, 1819, 528 (Hudson Bay). — Bonapaete, Journ. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, v, pt. i, 1825, 66; Obs. WUson's Amer. Orn., 

 1826 [148]; Contr. Maclurian Lye, i, 1827, 24; Geogr. and Comp. List, 



1838, 46.— Obd, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., viii, 1825, 20.— Swainson and 

 KiCHAKDSoN, Fauna Bor.-Amer., ii, 1831, 372. — Lesson, Trait6 d'Qrn., 1831, 

 587 (Philadelphia). — Ntjttaix, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Water 

 Birds, 1834, 34.— Audubon, Orn. Biogr., iii, 1835, 202, pi. 216; Synopsis, 



1839, 219; Birds Amer., Svo ed., v, 1842, 188, pis. 313, 314.— Townsend (J. 

 K.) Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadephia, viii, 1839, 156 (NW. United 

 States).— McCall., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1851, 223 (San 

 Antonio and Corpus Christi, Tex., Nov.). — Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 

 1853, 103.— Bbyant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, iv, 1853, 303 (crlt.).— 

 Wailes, Geol. Rep. Mississippi, 1854, 321. — Kennicott, Trans. Illinois Agr. 

 Assoc, i, 1855, 587 (Illinois). — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 229 (very 

 doubtful, according to Cones, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1868, 289). — ?Kneeland, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat Hist., vi, 1857, 237 (Keweenaw Point, Lake Su- 

 perior). — BiAKisTON, Ibis, 1863, 128 (Saskatchewan; Fort Simpson). — 

 SCHLBGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, v, No. 30, livr. 7, 1865, 4.— Dbesser, Ibis, 1866, 

 30 (San Antonio, Point Isabel, Galveston Island, and Brazos River, Tex.; 

 Matamoras, Mexico). — ^Tubnbull, Birds East Pennsylvania and New Jer- 

 sey, 1869, 43 (formerly breeding at Cape May, now very rare; 3 at 

 Beasleys Point in 1851).— Tmppe, Proc. Essex Inst., 1871, 118 (Minnesota, 

 occasionally breeding) ; Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 240 (Decatur 

 County, Iowa).— Aiken, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 209 (Colo- 

 rado, occasional during migration). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 9 (rare In 

 migration).— CouES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 530; Bull. U. S. Geol. and 

 Geogr. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 646 (Souris River, N. Dak., Aug.-Oct.) ; Check- 

 list, ed. 2, 1882, No. 668.— Langdon, Birds Cincinnati, 1877, 16 (rare 

 migrant).— Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Sui-v. Terr., iv, 1878, 61 

 (Brownsville, Tex., winter and up to Apr. 1) ; v, 1879, 435 (Padre Island, 

 Tex., Mar.).— RoBEETs and Bennee, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 19 

 (Grant County, Minn., breeding). — ^Robekts, Amer. Nat., xiv, 1880, 108-114, 

 fig. 11 (descr. trachea).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 202 

 (Cat North Amer. Birds, No. 582) ; Norn. North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 

 582.— Neheunq, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vu, 1882, 223 (Houston, Tex., 

 Nov.-Mar.). — Baibd, Beewee, and RmowAT, Water Birds North Amer., i, 

 1884, 404.— American Oenithologists' Union, Cheek List, 1886, and ed. 



