40 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



Fall migration. 



Place. 



Number 

 of years' 

 records. 



Average 

 date of 

 the last 



one seen. 



Latest date 

 of the last 

 one seen. 









Sept. 23, 1906 

 Sept. 24, 1905 





2 



Sept. 21 



Littleton, Colo 



Nov. 3,1908 





3 

 2 



Sept. 13 

 Oct. 26 



Sept. 15, 1910 

 Oct. 31,1909 





Nebraska City, Nebr 



Nov. 8,1909 





5 



4 



Sept. 17 

 Oct. 10 



Oct. 1, 1892 





Nov. 11,1900 





Nov. 22,1906 





13 

 6 

 5 

 4 



4 



Nov.' 1 

 Oct. 24 

 Nov. 2 

 Nov. 12 

 Oct. 16 



Nov. 17,1909 





Dec. 1,1906 



Vieksburg, Mich 



Nov. 18,1902 

 Dec. 19,1910 

 Oct. 20,1890 







Oct. 11,1894 





4 



7 



Nov. 5 

 Oct. 14 



Nov. 8,1904 





Oct. 30,1889 





Oct. 4,1894 





7 

 4 

 4 

 4 



Oct. 31 

 Oct. 24 

 Nov. 1 

 Oct. 17 



Nov. 13, 1897 



Pittsfield, Me 



Nov. 13,1896 





Nov. 21, 1891 





Nov. 10, 1911 



Erie, Pa 



Nov. 22, 1902 



Washington, D. C 







Dec. 5, 1S94 

 Oct. 11,1890 











European Heron. Ardea 



tea LJnnseus. 



The European heron is entitled to a place in the list of North 

 American birds solely on the strength of its occurrence in Greenland, 

 where it has been taken several times. It is recorded from Nanor- 

 talik, 1856, Godthaab, 1862, and January 14, 1877, and Nunarsuit, 

 1888, all these places being on the west coast; from Eggers Island, 

 at the south extremity of Greenland, the fall of 1893 ; and once from 

 the east coast. 



This heron has a wide distribution in the Eastern Hemisphere, 

 ranging north in Europe and Asia to about latitude 60°, and south 

 to southern Africa. Madagascar, southern Asia, the Malay Islands, 

 and Australia. 



Egret, llerodia.s egretta (Gmelin). 



Range. — The Gulf States and Mexico and north to Oregon, Wis- 

 consin, and New Jersey; the West Indies. Middle and South Amer- 

 ica to Patagonia ; has wandered north to Manitoba and Nova Scotia. 



Breeding range. — In the case of the egret a distinction must be 

 made between the present and the former breeding range, because 

 this is one of the species which has been almost exterminated for the 

 sake of obtaining the dorsal plumes known as aigrettes that are 

 borne at the breeding season. Fifty years ago, before the demands 

 of fashion had called for its slaughter, the egret nested in great 

 colonies in Florida, the other Gulf States, and several States of the 



