. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . an, Sinaloa (Lawrence), andLa Paz, Lower California (Belding). Eggs were found near Corpus Christi, Tex., March 24, 1878(Sennett) ; young in the nest. May 3, 1890, at Captive Pass, Fla.(Jamiscm) ; and young on the wing, April 15, 1901, Cozumel Island,Yucatan (Nelson). Gundlach says that in Cuba it nests from Julyto October. L0UI3UXA HEEOS. 51 Louisiana Heron. Hydranassa tiicolor ruffcoUis (GoKse). The Louisiana heron, as a whole, ranges from the Gulf States andMexico south to northern South America. It has been separated
. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . an, Sinaloa (Lawrence), andLa Paz, Lower California (Belding). Eggs were found near Corpus Christi, Tex., March 24, 1878(Sennett) ; young in the nest. May 3, 1890, at Captive Pass, Fla.(Jamiscm) ; and young on the wing, April 15, 1901, Cozumel Island,Yucatan (Nelson). Gundlach says that in Cuba it nests from Julyto October. L0UI3UXA HEEOS. 51 Louisiana Heron. Hydranassa tiicolor ruffcoUis (GoKse). The Louisiana heron, as a whole, ranges from the Gulf States andMexico south to northern South America. It has been separated intotwo subspecies, of which the northern, ruficollis^ extends north toXorth Carolina, Texas, and central Mexico, and south throughoutthe Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and Middle America to Ecuadorand Venezuela. The principal breeding range of the Louisiana heron in the UnitedStates is found in Florida and along the Gulf coast to Texas. Onthe Atlantic coast it is common north to Charleston, S. C. (Wayne),and in Audubons time it was considered abundant on the coast of. Fig. 17.—Louisiana heron (Jlydrana^sa tricolor ruficoUis). North Carolina, where it was still not uncommon near Beaufort in1898 (Pearson), and nested commonly near Orton, Brunswick County,in 1911 (Brimley). This seems to be the northern limit of thebreeding range. In the Mississippi Valley it has nested north to Rodney, Miss.(Mabbett) ; and Texarkana, Tex. (Oberholser). It seldom wandersfar north of its breeding ground, but a few have been noted at CobbIsland, Va. (Ridgway) ; Patchogue, X. Y., the summer of 1836 (Gi-raud) ; Sand Ridge, Clark County. Mo., April 13. 1890 (Currier) ;near Hanna, Ind., June 26, 1876 (Xelson); Stockton, Tex. (Dres-ser) ; and Terlingua, Tex. (Oberholser). 52 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. The Louisiana heron breeds along the whole eastern coast of Mex-ico and north on the west coast to Mazatlan, Sinaloa (Lawrence);La Paz, Lower California (Belding) ; and Santa Margarita Islan
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