ARDEINiE. ARDEA. 
265 
Male, 54, 83. Female, 50, 75. 
Resident in the Southern Florida Keys. Texas. Never seen to the 
eastward of Cape Florida, nor on the mainland. Common. 
Great White Heron, Ardea occidentalis, Aon. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 542 5 v.v. p. 596. 
371. 7. Ardea Herodias, Linn. Great Blue Heron. 
Plate CCXI. Male. 
Bill dusky green above, yellow beneath ; feet dull green, paler be- 
hind ; feathers of the head long, tapering, deeurved, two of them ex- 
tremely elongated ; very long, tapering, pointed feathers from the 
anterior part of the back ; forehead pure white, the rest of the crest 
feathers bluish-black ; throat white, neck pale purplish-brown, the 
elongated feathers beneath greyish- white, with part of the inner webs 
purplish-blue, forming a longitudinal band ; upper parts light greyish- 
blue, the elongated tips of the dorsal feathers greyish-white ; edge of 
the wing, some feathers at the base of the fore neck, and the tibial fea- 
thers, brownish-orange ; two tufts of large curved feathers on the fore 
part of the breast bluish-black, some of them with a central stripe of 
white ,* lower surface of wings and sides light greyish-blue ; elongated 
feathers of breast, white, their inner edge black, of the abdomen chiefly 
black ; lower tail- coverts white, some of them with an oblique mark of 
black near the tip. Young in first plumage without the elongated dorsal 
feathers, the colours duller and tinged with brown ; upper part of head 
streaked with white, as is the breast. 
Male, 48, 72. 
Resident from Texas to South Carolina. In spring migrates over 
the United States, and along the Atlantic coast to the Gulf of St Law- 
rence. Breeds everywhere. Retires southward in autumn. Common. 
Great Heron, Ardea Herodias, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 106. 
Ardea Herodias, Bonap. Syn. p. 304. 
Great Heron, Ardea Herodias, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 42. 
Great Blue Heron, Ardea Herodias, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 87 ; v. v. p. 599. 
372. 8. Ardea Egretta, Gmel. Great American White 
Egret. 
Plate CCCLXXXVI. Male. 
Feathers of the head scarcely elongated, those of the fore part of the 
back extremely long, slightly deeurved, with loose filaments, and ex- 
tending about ten inches beyond the tail ; bill yellow ; feet black ; 
plumage pure white. Young white, the elongated feathers not fully 
developed until the second year, bill greenish-black. 
M^ale, 37 , 57 . 
Resident in Florida, and Galveston Bay in Texas. Migrates in spring 
sometimes as far as Massachusetts ; up the Mississippi, to Natchez, 
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