COUES, BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 41 



Quail. Of exceptioniil and entirely accidental occur- 

 rence, and not really entitled to a place in the list, as the 

 specimens captured were doubtless cage-birds. ("Bridge- 

 port, Ct., Dec, 1840"; Lins., p. 264.) 



LAGOPID^E. 



Lagopus albus And. — White Ptarmigan. Rare, in 

 winter, in more northern portions. Hardly known as a 

 straggler so tar south as Massachusetts. ("Northern 

 Maine, in winter ; rare;" Verr., p. 22. — Omitted from 

 Sam. O. 0.) 



No. 860. White plumage. Manchester, Essex Co., May 10, 1859; 

 but supposed to have been brought alive fi'om Labrador or Newfound- 

 land and escaped. 



No. 76, 5 . Summer plumage, Sukkertoppen, Greenland, July 30, 

 18G2. From the Williams College Lyceum, 1864. 



No. 94. White plumage. Great Slave Lake. R. Kennicott. From 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1864. 



I am not confident that these three specimens are of the same spe- 

 cies ; or that albxis is their proper name. 



GRUID^E. 

 Grus Canadensis Temm. — Sand-hill Crane. 



Nos. 1034; 1035. Bloomington, 111. Dr. E. S. L. Richardson. 



The AVhooping Crane, G. Americanus, has been at- 

 tributed to New England by one author. {Em7n., p. 5 ; 

 and quoted hy Putn., -^. 229.) No recent writers pre- 

 sent it. Its 'occurrence must be regarded as extremely 

 problematical. 



ARDEID^. 



Ardea herodias Linn. — Great Blue Heron. "Blue 



Crane." Summer resident. Common. 



No. 996, $. Essex Co. J. Webster, 1856. 



No. 997, $ , young. Essex Co. 



No. 464, 5 . Newburyport, Essex Co. 



Herodias egretta Gray. — Great White Egret. Rare 

 summer visiiant ; hardly farther north than Massachu- 

 setts. No part of New England is within its regular 

 range ; and its occurrence must be considered accidental, 



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