Marcia: There is an excellent article, "Identification of Snowy and Little Egret" by E. Massiah in "Birding World" 9(#11), 434-444, 1996. [Incidentally, that is the British journal, not the American magazine "Birder's World"]. It contains 22 color plates and much descriptive material. Other possibilities are the article by I.A.McLaren: "Birding" 21(#6), 284-287, 1989, and that by R.A.Hume: "British Birds" 85 (#1), 21-24, 1992. Both are much shorter with few plates. If you have trouble locating the "Birding World" article I could make a black-and -white xerox copy and send it to you. Harvey Mudd _____________________________________________________________________ At 03:24 PM 6/12/98 -0400, you wrote: >Speaking of Little Egret, can someone refer me to a good reference for the field >marks for this one? I spend a lot of time looking at waders, so maybe someday... >Marcia Watson-Whitmyre >Cecil County ____________________________________ S. Harvey Mudd NIMH/DIRP/LMB Building 36, Room 1B-08 36 CONVENT DR MSC 4034 BETHESDA MD 20892-4034 tel: 301-496-0681; fax 301-402-0245 email: shm@codon.nih.gov