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ALTRICIAL GRALLATORES — HERODIONES. 
7.00 ; culmen, 2.20-2.75 ; depth at base, .45 (in young) ; tarsus, 1.85-2.35 ; middle toe, 
1.70 (in young). Hab. Cuba. 
2. B. virescens. Foreneck striped with whitish, and side of head with a narrow rictal stripe 
of the same. Young : Striped beneath, with rusty whitish and dusky. Wing, 6.30-8.00 ; 
cidmen, 2.00-2.55; depth of bill through base, .40-. 60; tarsus, 1.75-2.15 ; middle toe, 
1.65-1.95. Hab. Temperate North America, West Indies, Middle America, and northern 
South America. 
B. Neck ash-gray. 
3. B. striata. 1 Similar to B. virescens, but neck fine ash-gray in adult, dull grayish in the 
young, instead of chestnut or rufous. Wing, 6.55-7.10 ; tail, 2.50-3.10; culmen, 2.20- 
2.55; depth of lull, .42-.4S ; tarsus, 1.90-2.10; middle toe, 1.70-1.85. Hab. South 
America in general. 
-f Butorides virescens. 
THE GREEN HERON. 
Ardca stcllaris minima, Catesby, Carolina, I. 1751, pi. 80 (adult). 
Ardea virescens, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, 1758, 114, no. 15 (based, in part, on the above) ; ed. 12, 1766, I. 
238, no. 20. — Wils. Am. Orn. VII. 1813, 97, pi. 61. — Nutt. Man. II. 1831, 63. — Aud. Orn. 
Biog. IV. 1838, 247, pi. 333 ; Synop. 1839, 261 ; Birds Am. VI. 1813, 105, pi. 367. — Coues, 
about 7 inches ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 2J ; bill,' 2f . [G. N. Lawrence, in Am. Lyc. N. Y. VII. 1860, p. 271. 
Mr. Lawrence adds : “ It scarcely differs from B. virescens, of which it is a remarkable representative, 
but unmistakably distinct. The plumage generally is darker than in virescens. In the appearance of their 
upper parts the two species closely resemble each other, but virescens has the chin and a central line down 
the throat and neck, also a stripe on the side of the head, white ; these parts in brunncsccns are uniform 
in color, with no trace of white. This species is also without the light edgings to the wing-coverts and 
smaller quills so conspicuous in virescens .”] 
Young (No. 33081, Cuba; Dr. Gundlach.): Pileum and occipital crest dull black, with a slight 
bottle-green gloss ; rest of head and neck dull ferruginous, the malar and post-ocular regions streaked 
with black, the central line of the throat and foreneck with indistinct dusky streaks and narrower ones 
of light buff. Lower parts dull brown, tinged with light rusty ; under-surface of wings uniform dull 
slate. Upper parts dull greenish brown, the back and scapulars uniform, the wings and tail glossed with 
bottle-green, all the coverts bordered with ferruginous ; primary-coverts and primaries uniform slate with- 
out trace of whitish tips; secondaries and tail uniform dark metallic bottle-green. Wing, 6.40; tail, 
2.50 ; culmen, 2.20 ; depth of bill, .45 ; tarsus, 1.85 ; middle toe, 1.70 ; bare part of tibia, .50. 
This is apparently a very distinct species, differing from its allies, not only in colors, but in strongly- 
marked peculiarities of form. We have never seen the adult, the only specimen in the National Museum 
being an excellently mounted full-grown young bird of the year, presented by Dr. Gundlach. 
1 Butorides striata (Linn.). 
Crabicr, clc Cayenne, Buff. PL Enl. 908 (adult). 
Ardca striata, Linn. S. N. I. 1758, 141 ; ed. 12, I. 1766, 238. — Reichenow, J. f. O. 1877, 253 
(s. g. Butorides). 
Cancroma grisca, Bodd. Tabl. P. E. 1783, no. 908. 
Ardca grisca, Leot. Ois. Trinidad, p. 421. 
BiUoriclcs grisca, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. I860, 196 (Cartagena, Colombia). — Bouc. Cat. Av. 
1876, 51, no. 1428. 
Ardca fuscicollis, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XIV. 1817, 410. 
Ardea cyanura, Vieill. t. c. 421 ; Ene. Meth 1120. 
Butorides cyanurus, Bonap. Consp. II. 1855, 128. — Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868,145 (Concliitas, 
Buenos Ayres) ; Nom. Neotr. 1873, 125. 
Ardea scapularis, “Illig.” Ltoht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, 77. — Burm. Th. Bras. iii. 1856, 411. — 
Finsch. P. Z. S. 1870, 589 (Trinidad). 
Egrctta scapularis, Sw. Anini. Menag. 1838, 333 (Brazil). 
Butorides scapularis, Bp. Consp. ii. 1855, 128 . — Scl. & Salv 7- . P. Z. S. 1866, 199 (Ucayali, 
E. Peru). 
Butorides scapulatus, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, 305 (E. Peru). 
