52 The Wilson Bulletin— Xo. 78. 



seemed quite unafraid, as wagons and automobiles passed it within 

 two hundred feet without scaring it. I was able to walk within 

 one hundred and fifty feet of it and examine it thoroughly thi'oiigh 

 my glasses. It was of pure white plumage, without plumes or tufts 

 of any kind, quite slim and sleek in ^ appearance, and somewhat 

 smaller than the great blue heron. After watching It as long as 

 I wished, I scared it up and it^flew away in a westerly course 

 along the lake. 



During the middle and the latter , part of July T had reports 

 from several parties of a pair of white cranes up the Huron 

 River. They were raid sometimes to be alone and sometimes with 

 great blue herons. I made several trips up trying to catch sight 

 of them, but it was not until the afternoon of July 30 that I found 

 them. WTiile coming back from a trip up the river in a launch, 

 two egrets flew by the boat and lit in a tree overhanging the river. 

 They wrti'e similar to the one I ihad seen on July 5. but I was 

 unable to approadh as closely as before. After watching the boat 

 for a short time they winged their way further up the river. This 

 w.Ts the last seen or heard from them. 



The only previous record in late years; that I have been able 

 to find for Ohio is the mention in Dawson's Birds of Ohio of one 

 seen near Cincinnati in August. 1902. W. W. Cook, in his article. 

 " Distribution of the American Egrets." issued in September of 

 this year, also mentions the 1002 occurrence as being the only re- 

 cent one. 



Huron . Ohio. H. G. Morse. 



NOTES FROM HURON, OHIO. 



On October !.'>, alx)ut 11 a. m.. I observed a flock of 82 crows 

 coming in toward the beach from the north. They reached the 

 beach about one and one-half miles west of town and. after pro- 

 ceeding Inland aboxit half a mile. lit. They were flying about 200 

 feet high and when first seen were about half a mile out over 

 the lake and coming from ,tnie direction of Point Pelee. The day 

 was foggy early, then clearing, with little or no wind. 



The eagles did not nest in the nest west of Rye Reach this 

 year. 



Green-winged teal wore observed on March 10. one pair in Mud 

 Brook; March 24. two males one mile up Huron River, and April 

 fl, one n^ale and two females in marsh on the Huron River. 



One Golden-eye young male taken March, 30 up tllie river. 



Swamp sparrows were seen and heard singing from April S to 

 August 2, then none were «een until September 20, and from then 

 until October 20. but not singing. 



