132 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
counted thirteen nests in a clump of Negundo aceroides on June 
16th, 1894. Breeds also on Vancouver Island. (Sfreadborough.) 
Heronries are now generally deserted in the vicinity of London, 
Ont., and the birds are much less common than formerly. Single 
nests are now more and more the rule. Eggs, four and five, some- 
times spotted with deep black. (W. Saunders.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One taken near Ottawa, by Mr. G. R. White ; another in Tor- 
onto marsh by Mr. S. Herring. One set of eggs taken at Chat- 
ham, Ont., April 30th, 1880, and received from Mr. Raine. 
195. European Blue Heron. 
Ardea cinerea LINN. 1758. 
Said by Crantz to have been seen in South Greenland, August 
27th, 1765 ; a young bird found dead near Nenortalik in 1856 
was sent to Copenhagen. (Arct. Man.) Several specimens taken 
since 1856. (Winge.) 
196. American Egret. 
Ardea egretta GMEL. 1788. 
Casual in summer in Nova Scotia. (Dowmns.) One shot at 
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, in 1878. (C./. Maynard.) This 
species was seen by Mr. Comeau at Godbout on the St. Lawrence 
in 1882. (Dzonne.) A rare visitor in the Montreal district. <A 
pair was observed at Beauharnois in the fall of 1889 and one 
shot ; another example was taken in the summer of 1891 at Isle 
aux Noix, forty miles from Montreal. There is a record in The 
Auk, vol. Il., page 110, of a pair seen at Rockliffe, onthe Ottawa 
River, in the spring of 1883. The male was obtained and is now 
in the Museum at Ottawa. These were adults, but the specimen 
in my collection, which was obtained at Rondeau, near the west 
end of Lake Erie, and others which I have heard of along our 
southern border, were all young birds. (cl/wraith.) An adult 
specimen of this species was shot on Duck Bay, Lake Winnipe- 
goosis, in 1888, by Mr. David Armit. This I believe is the north- 
ernmost record for the species. (Seton-Thompson in The Auk, 
Volt, p40) 
