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The Little Blue Heron (Ardea ccei-uka) breeding to about the 

 same limit, is twenty-two inches in length. The adult plumage 

 is of a dark bluish slate color, except the head and neck which 

 are maroon chestnut. The legs, feet, and bill are black. But the 

 immature bird is white, the plumage sometimes more or less 

 washed with slaty; the tips of the primaries always bluish slate 

 color; legs and feet greenish yellow. 



The Snowy Heron {Ardea candidissivia) , which breeds as 

 far north as Long Island, N. Y. (fide Chapman), measures 

 twenty-four inches in length. The entire plumage is pure 

 white. Legs black, feet yellow, bill black, yellow at the base. 



The abundance and distribution of these birds, particularly 

 Ardea candidissima, has been so greatly altered by the demands 

 of the plume-wearing fashions, that the information contained 

 in the older books can no longer be relied upon as expressing 

 present conditions. From the fact that not a single specimen 

 of Ardea candidissima was found among the fifty birds shot, 

 which I have seen or known of, we may suppose that the 

 Snowy Heron is now a rare bird with us. 



Again the Little Blue Heron, which is set down in Stone's 

 " Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey," as a rare 

 straggler from the south, with but three positively identified 

 specimens to its credit, seems within the last four years to have 

 been more numerous as a late summer and fall visitor. 



The following records of Ardea egretta are prior to 1902, and 

 not contained in the last mentioned work nor in the Club's 

 Proceedings. 



In 1894 in late summer, one shot at Buzby's Bogs, three 

 miles southwest of Taunton, N. J., now in possession of Joseph 

 S. Evans, Marlton, N. J. 



About 1896, one shot from fiock of six at Buzby's Bogs, now 

 in possession of Samuel Burroughs, Haddonfield, N. J. 



1902 Records. 

 7 mo., 10th, 1902, one shot from fiock of seven near Keiinctt 

 Square, Pa. — C. J. Pennock. 



7 mo., 20th, 1902, one seen by Witmer Stone at W'awa, Pa. 

 7 mo., 26th, 1902, one shot near Berwyn, Pa., along Darby 



