The Snowy Egret 



ican Herons are prone 

 to wander north at the 

 close of the breeding sea- 

 son, and there is such a 

 record of the Snowy 

 Heron as far north as 

 British Columbia, viz., 

 two specimens taken 

 near Vancouver, B. C, 

 in May, 1879. 



Only recently 

 records began to reap- 

 pear in print. C. P. 

 Streator had noted it as 

 a common winter visi- 

 tant at Santa Barbara 

 in 1885, while the next 

 published appearance in 

 California was in the 

 spring of 1907 at Buena 

 Vista, by C. B. Linton. 

 On July 11, 1912, H. C. 

 Bryant saw three indi- 

 viduals at Los Banos. 

 Willett, 1 writing in 1912, 

 had never seen them and 

 judged them near extinc- 

 tion. 



My own acquaint- 

 ance with the Snowy 

 Heron began at Santa 

 Barbara, when a solitary 

 bird appeared on the 

 2nd of May, 1912. On 

 the 12th of the following 

 February we found a 

 single individual trail- 

 ing a large flock of Amer- 

 ican Egrets at Potholes. 

 Again, on the 28th of 



1 Birds of Southern Calif., p. 31. 



1905 



Taken in Merced County Photo by the Author 



A JAPANESQUE 



THE UPPER FIGURE IS THAT OF A SNOWY HERON. THE LOWER THAT OF A BLACK-CROWNED 



NIGH1 HERON 



