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103. Ardea herodias Linn. Great BLUE HERON. 
A rather common migrant; rare in winter. 
March 17 to May (June 25); July 15 to November 26 (Win- 
S15) 
Amherst: Occasional in spring and fall. Berkshire: “ Not common. 
chiefly in spring and autumn, .... no positive evidence of its breeding.” 
Bristol County: ‘‘Common transient visitant.” Brookline: ‘*A not 
uncommon migrant.” Winter. Cambridge: Common transient visitant. 
Occasional in summer. Cohasset: “ Common in fall and spring.’” Ded- 
ham: ‘ Regular visitor in the migrations.”” Essex County: “Summer 
visitant. Common.” Ipswich: “ Rather common transient visitant.” 
Nantucket: ‘Common in September.” Springfield: ‘A transient visi- 
tor.’ Templeton: “A rare summer resident, [?] common in the fall.” 
Wellesley: ‘Common migrant.” 
104. Ardea egretta Gmel. AMERICAN EGRET. 
An occasional summer visitant. There are records from the 
following localities: Ashland, Dedham, Hudson, Ipswich, Lynn, 
“Nantucket, North Hadley, Plymouth, Quincy, Springfield, Tops- 
field, Wellesley, West Brookfield and Westford. The last record 
is: Wantucket, one taken September 23, 1890.' 
April, May, August, September, November. 
to5. Ardea czrulea Linn. LITTLE BLUE HERON. 
- Accidental from the south. The records are: Eastern Massa- 
chusetts,‘a specimen in the State agricultural Cabinet”;? Cohas- 
set, a male in immature plumage shot about 1852 by a Mr. Morse ;3 
Newton, seen “on one or two occasions in autumn” by Mr. C. J. 
Maynard;* Jpswich, one taken August ro, 1881, and now in 
the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History; Bourne, 
a flock of about six, all in white plumage was seen by Mr. O. 
Bangs, in midsummer 1881: one was shot by Mr. A. Hardy. 
106. Ardea candidissima Gmel. SNowy HERON. 
An accidental visitant from the south. The records are: Near 
UMackay; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Jan., 1891, p. 120. 
? Allen; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. IV, 1864, p. 86. 
3Brewer; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIX, 1878, p. 250. 
4Maynard; Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 143 and Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. III, 
No. 12, Feb., 1870, p. 637, p. 39 of separate. 
