. Birds of North Carolina . In tlie tall trees of Crane Xeik Kookerv. Nest and two younu of American Egret. (Plwto hii I. W. Adickes.) Descriptive List 101 Fort Macon in 1870, but found none breeding. Atkinson mentions in his list ofNorth Carolina birds a specimen in the collection of James Busbee, from Wilming-ton. Cairns took one in Buncombe County, but the date appears not to have beenrecorded. Bishop secured a pair at Pea Island, April 22, Pig. 65. Snowy Egret. Genus Hydranassa (Baird)82. Hydranassa tricolor ruficoUis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. Description: Ails.—lippevparts dark blu
. Birds of North Carolina . In tlie tall trees of Crane Xeik Kookerv. Nest and two younu of American Egret. (Plwto hii I. W. Adickes.) Descriptive List 101 Fort Macon in 1870, but found none breeding. Atkinson mentions in his list ofNorth Carolina birds a specimen in the collection of James Busbee, from Wilming-ton. Cairns took one in Buncombe County, but the date appears not to have beenrecorded. Bishop secured a pair at Pea Island, April 22, Pig. 65. Snowy Egret. Genus Hydranassa (Baird)82. Hydranassa tricolor ruficoUis (Gosse). Louisiana Heron. Description: Ails.—lippevparts dark bluish slate-color; back of head and upper neck withelongated chestnut-rufous and white feathers; back with pale brownish gray aigrette plumesreaching to tail; lower back, rump, and belly white; neck bluish slate-color: throat white, rufous line down the middle of foreneck; legs blackish; base of bill and lores liluish.^>-—Throat, and an indistinct line down the foreneck wliite; rest of head and neck brownishrufous; upper back and wings bluish slate-color, more or less washed with brownish rufous;no plumes; lower back, rump, and belly white; breast with more or less slaty streaks; legsyellow behind, lilackish before; lower mandible and lores orange; upper mandible black. L.,; W., ; Tar., ; B., (Chap., Birds nj E. N. A.) Range.—Breeds from North Carolina to Central America; winters from South Carolinas
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