46 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



son) ; Aug., 1899, flock of a hundred seen near East Haven 

 marshes, a number roosting nightly at Branford (Nichols) ; July 

 28, 1899, Kent, one taken by Hall (in coll. of H. K. J.) ;^ July 25, 

 1906, Canaan, one shot (in coll. of Pease) ;^ Aug., 1911, near 

 Greenwich, one seen (P. G. Howes) ;2 Aug. 15-30, 1911, West 

 Haven, two seen (J. Hitchcock). 



Egretta candidissima candidissima (Gmelin). Snowy Egret. 



Merriam^ characterizes this species as " a rare accidental visi- 

 tor from the South." He further states that Linsley saw it at 

 Stratford and that Dr. Crary has taken it at Hartford (prior to 

 1877). C. L. R. of Norwich writes in O. and O. •} " In early Octo- 

 ber I have seen eleven Snowy Herons at the point (Groton Long 

 Point) at once, at another time nine, and smaller groups in other 

 seasons." Mr. Jno. C. Comstock, in his journal kept at Lyme, 

 records five specimens seen July 28, 1853, ^"^1 thirteen Aug. 16, 

 1853 (J. H. S.). 



Florida casrulea (Linnreus). Little Blue Heron. 



A rare straggler from the South. 



Merriam^ gives the following records : Linsley took it at 

 Stratford; April, 1877, one seen in Lake Whitney (doubtful 

 record); May (1876?), Suffield, one shot (doubtful record). 



Other records : July 28, 1875, Wethersfield, two seen, a 

 young male killed by Mr. Ransom T. Hewitt (in coll. of W. W. 

 C., and recorded in part by Merriam) ; Aug. 12, 1881, Saybrook, 

 a specimen in immature plumage obtained from a flock of about 

 six (J. N. C.) f summer, 1895, one taken near New Haven and 

 mounted by a local taxidermist; Aug. 4, 1897, Niantic, one taken 

 (P. J. McCook) ; July 21 — Aug. 5, 1899, Lyme, seven seen, tv/o 

 taken (A. W. Brockway) f Sept. 15, 1899, Stratford, one young 

 in a flock of three taken (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; April 27, 1900, 

 Portland, female in adult plumage shot by Hurlburt ( in coll. of 

 J. H. S.) ; Aug. 2, 1901, Guilford, young shot (in coll. of L. B. 



1 H. K. Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 294. 

 ^ Oologist, xxviii, 9, p. 152. 

 3 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. iii. 

 * O. and O., xvi, 4, p. 59. 

 ^ O. and O., vi, 7, p. 51. 

 Auk, xvi, 4, p. 152. 



