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78 [196] Herodias egretta (Gmel.). 

 American Egret. 



Accidental visitor from the south. 



Dr. J. A.Allen 1 stated, in 1870, that one was taken near Lynn, by N. 

 Vickary several years previous. There is a fine specimen in the collection of the 

 Lawrence Natural History Society. Mr. Baldwin Coolidge, who formerly owned 

 this collection, told me that this bird was taken at Newburyport, about 1870, by 

 Mr. George Thurlow on the same day that Mr. Vickary shot one in Lynn. 

 There is a pair of these Herons in the Peabody Academy collection, at Salem, 

 both shot at Newburyport, on October 14th, 1878, by R. L. Newcomb. A 

 fifth specimen is in the possession of Dr. F. H. Stockwell, of Ipswich. This 

 bird was brought to him in the flesh, and was shot in the salt marshes there in 

 August, 1899. 



[197] Egretta candidissima (Gmel.). Snowy Heron. Given by Putnam' 2 as "Spring. 

 Very rare." There are no known records nor specimens from Essex County, and only three 

 records from the State, i. e., near Boston, in 1862 ; Northampton, prior to 1S87 ; and Nantucket, 

 in 18S1. 3 



79 [200] Florida caerulea (Linn.). 

 Little Blue Heron. 



Accidental visitor from the south. 



There is a mounted bird of this species in the collection of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, taken at Ipswich, on August 10th, 1881. This is 

 recorded by Howe and Allen. 4 



1 J. A. Allen : Amer. Nat., vol. 3, p. 637, 1870. 



2 F. W. Putnam: Proc. Essex Inst., vol. 1, p. 218, 1856. 



3 R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen : The Birds of Massachusetts, p. 46, 1901. 

 4 R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen : The Birds of Massachusetts, p. 45, 1901. 



