_Snowy Heron._—+Wils.+
_Egretta candidissima._
_Ardea candidissima_, +Gmel.+—Aud. pl. 242.
_Egretta candidissima_, +Bonap.+
[99] Length 22 inches, expanse 34¹⁄₂, flexure 9¹⁄₁₀, tail 3¹⁄₁₀,
rictus 3⁹⁄₁₀, tarsus 4, middle toe 2⁶⁄₁₀. (A female.)
This is much more rare than the preceding species; but two specimens
having fallen under my observation, both of which occurred in the
middle of the winter. It is probably a migrant from the continent; the
preceding, however, is a permanent resident with us.
From the rarity of its occurrence, I can add nothing to Wilson’s
account of this species; except that in the stomach of one I found
twenty-nine small silvery fishes, a species of _Smaris_.