. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . coast it breeds north to Charleston, S. C. (Wayne). Itnests much farther north, however, in the Mississippi Valley even atthe mouth of the Illinois River (Widmann); to Mount Carmel, 111.(Nelson); Bicknell, Ind. (Chansler); Crooked Creek, Kans. (Goss);Fort Reno, Okla. (Merrill) ; Gurley, Tex. (Howell); and Laredo,Tex. (Butcher). The northern limit of the breeding range on thePacific coast is found at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, at Magdalena Bay, LowerCalifornia, and on Socorro Island. The species is a common breederin the Bahamas a
. Distribution and Migration of North American Herons and their Allies . coast it breeds north to Charleston, S. C. (Wayne). Itnests much farther north, however, in the Mississippi Valley even atthe mouth of the Illinois River (Widmann); to Mount Carmel, 111.(Nelson); Bicknell, Ind. (Chansler); Crooked Creek, Kans. (Goss);Fort Reno, Okla. (Merrill) ; Gurley, Tex. (Howell); and Laredo,Tex. (Butcher). The northern limit of the breeding range on thePacific coast is found at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, at Magdalena Bay, LowerCalifornia, and on Socorro Island. The species is a common breederin the Bahamas and the West Indies, and less commonly and some-what locally throughout Central America and northern South Americasouth to Paranagua, Brazil (Pelzeln) ; and Tumbez, Peru (Tacza-nowski). Wi7ite7 range.—The yellow-crowned night heron seems to desertthe United States during the winter, though an injured bird spentthe winter of 1009-10 at Upper Matecunibe Key, Fhi. (Brodhead).and two birds were seen during January, 1912, near Brownsville, YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT 65. Fig. 21.—Yellow-crowned night heron (.V//r^J«rt,«sa .S0652°—13 5 66 NORTH AMERICAN HERONS AND THEIR ALLIES. Tex. (Smith). It winters, hoAvever. in Cuba (Gundlach) ; AndrosIslaiul, Bahamas (Bonhote) ; Santa Ana, Vera Cruz (Ferrari-Perez) ;Mazathm, Sinaloa (Lawrence) ; and La Paz, Lower California(Brewster). Spring migration.—The earliest migrants reached Catfish Creek,Polk County, P^la., February 14, 1901 (specimen in U. S. National Mu-seum) ; Savannah, Ga., March 28, 1900 (Perry); Charleston, S. C,average March 25, earliest March 23, 1907 (Wayne) ; Xew Orleans,La., average Alarch 19, earliest March 9, 1895 (Allison) ; Rodney,Miss., average March 25, earliest March 20, 1890 (Mabl^ett); )uis, Mo., April 10 (Hurter) ; Bicknell, Ind., April 13, 1908 (Chans-ler) ; Corpus Christi, Tex., March 8, 1877 (Sennett); Galveston,Tex., March 20,1892 (Lloyd) ; Dallas, Tex., March 28,1898 (Mayer);Crooked Cr
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