502 BIRDS—ARDEIDZ. 
ARDEA CANDIDISSIMA Gmelin. 
Little White Keret. 
Garzetta candidissima, WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 368, 377; Reprint, 1861, 10> 
19.—LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1579, 184; Reprint, 18. 
Ardea candidissima, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1:74, 5733; Re- 
print, 1875, 13.—Lanepon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 15; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., 
i, 1878, 117; Reprint, 8. : 
Ardea candidissima, GMELIN, Syst. Nat., i, 1768, 633. 
Garzetta candidissima, BONAPARTE, Consp. Av., ii, 1855, 118. 
Adult with a long occipital crest of decomposed feathers and similar dorsal plumes, 
latter recurved when perfect; similar, but not recurved plumes on the lower neck, which - 
is bare behind; lores, eyes and toes yellow ; bill and legs black, former yellow at base, 
latter yellow at the lower part behind. Plumage always entirely white. Length, 24; 
wing, 11-12; bill, 3; tarsus, 34-4. 
Habitat, United States, southerly. North regularly to the Middle States, casually to 
Massachusetts and even to Nova Scotia. Kansas. Mexico. West Indies. Central and 
South America to Chili. Breeds throughout the regular United States range, and 
resident in the Gulf States and further south. 
Very rare or accidental. Mr. M. C. Reed, of Hudson, captured a speci- 
men several years since in Ashtabula county. This bird had been pre- 
viously wounded. Mr. Winslow records it from Northern Ohio, but may 
refer to the same individual. Late in the summer of 1859, I saw five of 
these birds at Granville, Licking county. These were apparently all 
young. Mr. Langdon, on the authority of Mr. Dury notes one open 
taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati. 
Although Dr. Coues states that the range of the last species and this 
ARDEA C2HERULEA L. 
Little Ilme Heron. 
Florida cerulea, WHEATON, Reprint, Ohio Agric. Rp for 1861, 21 (probable). 
Ardea ceruliia, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 15 (probable). 
Ardea cerulea, LINNZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 239. 
Florida cerulea, BAIRD, P. R. R. Rep., ix, 185%, 671. 
The Little Blue Heron probably occurs in the soathern portion of the State, but I am 
not aware that it has been positively identified within our limits, though it occurs in 
Southern Illinois, and has been seen by Mr. Brewster in West Virginia. The following 
is Dr. Cones description: Head of the adult with lengthened decomposed feathers, 
those of the lower neck and scapulars, elongate and lanceolate; no dorsal plumes; neck 
bare behind, below. Size of the Snowy Heron. Adalt slaty-blue beeoming purplish on 
the head and neck; bill and loral space blue, shading to black at the end; eyes yellow, 
legs black. Young pure white, but generally showing blue traces, by which it is distin- 
guished from Snowy Heron, as well as by the color of the bill and feet, though at first 
the legs are greenish-blue with yellow traces. 
