64 :nokth 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. 





3 

 4 



Oct. 23 

 Oct. 8 



Nov. 7, 1893 



New York, N . Y. (near) 



Oct. 17,1904 

 Oct. 11,1888 

 Nov. 22,1908 

 Nov. 6,1890 

 Oct. 1,1900 

 Sept. 16,1907 

 Oct. 11,1895 







4 



6 



Oct. 24 

 Oct. 10 













4 



Sept. 13 





Oct. 15,1894 



Chicago, HI 



7 

 9 

 2 



Sept. 23 

 Oct. 13 

 Sept. 23 



Oct. 20,1906 

 Oct. 27,1894 







Sept. 24,1894 

 Nov. 14,1885 

 Oct. 15,1885 













Oct. 27,1900 







Oct. 18,1887 

 Nov. 20,1910 









2 



Oct. 7 



Oct. 11,1908 







[Agami Heron. Agamia agami (Gmelin). 



A nonmigratory species ranging west to Palenque. Chiapas (Nelson and Gold- 

 man), and to Rio Coatza coal cos, Vera Cruz (Suinichrast). It is rare and local 

 in British Honduras. Guatemala, and Costa Rica, more common in Panama, 

 and has a wide range in northern South America, south to Yurimaguas, Pern, 

 and to Matto Grasso, Brazil.] 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. Xyctanassa riolacra ( Linnaeus') . 



Ranqc. — Temperate and tropical America, north to South Carolina. 

 Illinois. Kansas, and Lower California: south throughout the West 

 Indies and Central America to Brazil and Peru. 



Breeding range, — ■ The yellow-crowned night heron is a common 

 breeding bird in Florida and the lower parts of the Gulf States. On 

 the Atlantic coast it breeds north to Charleston, S. C. (Wayne). It 

 nests much farther north, however, in the Mississippi Valley even ;it 

 the mouth of the Illinois River (Widmann) ; to Mount Carmel, 111. 

 (Nelson) ; Hieknell. Ind. (Chansler) ; Crooked Creek, Kans. (Goss)-; 

 Fort Reno, Okla. (Merrill); Gurley. Tex. (Howell); and Laredo. 

 Tex. (Batcher). The northern limit of the breeding range on the 

 Pacific coast is found at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, at Magdalena Hay, Lower 

 California, and on Socorro Island. The species is a common breeder 

 in the Bahamas and the West Indies, and less commonly and some- 

 what locally throughout Central America and northern South America 

 south to Paranagua, Brazil (Pelzeln); and Tumbez, Peru (Tacza- 

 nowski). 



Winter range.— The yellow-crowned night heron seems to desert 

 the United States during the winter, though an injured bird ^j>ent 

 the winter of 1909-10 at Upper Matecumbe Key. Fla. (Brodhead), 

 and two birds were seen during January. 1912, near Brownsville, 



