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to " the marsh " for two and one half hours, before I was able to secure it 

 at last at the former place. The bird was sent in the flesh and presented 

 to the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. 



136. Nycticorax nycticorax nsevius (Bodd.). Black-crowned 

 Night Heron. — Rare transient. I am indebted to Mr. Stephen Clarke 

 of Hatley Centre for first being able to include the above species in my list. 

 The record rests on a mounted example in the possession of Mr. Clarke, 

 which he shot on or about April 15, 1908, at Fitch Bay some twelve miles 

 from Hatley, and when shown to me on November 5, 1917, proved to 

 be an adult bird. When obtained it had three occipital plumes but one 

 of these has since been accidentally pulled out. Mr. Greer also tells me 

 he set up one of these birds for the late Mr. Hollis J. Hitchcock of Massa- 

 wippi about 1907 or 1908, which was caught in a muskrat trap at Lake 

 Massawippi. 



Since writing the above I have had an opportunity of more carefully 

 examining Mr. Clarke's bird, and find that the three occipital plumes are 

 still there, one plume having at some time so perfectly overlapped one of 

 the others, as to give the bird the appearance of only having two, and 

 thus causing Mr. Clarke to think that one had been abstracted. 



137. Cathartes aura septentrionalis ( Wied) . Turkey Vulture. — 

 Rare transient from the South. July 31. On the above date in 1917 

 -whilst driving from Hatley to Massawippi, a bird of this species flew off 

 the road and alighted on the fence alongside. My youngest son who was 

 with me at the time, was the first to notice it, exclaiming " why there is a 

 white headed crow or something! " I looked up just in time to catch sight 

 of the bird as it left the fence and alighted on the ground not far from the 

 road, and at the edge of a large wood. I got down and followed the bird 

 about the wood for some time, flushing it out on one occasion quite close to 

 my son who was standing in the road holding the horse, when he got a good 

 view of it, telling me afterwards that it looked like a young turkey. The 

 bird was evidently an immature as it only took short flights about the 

 wood, and I got several good views of it, as it sat perched in the trees, the 

 grayish down on its bare head, no doubt causing the allusion at the moment 

 to the " white-headed crow or something! " of my son. I visited the spot 

 again the following day but nothing more was seen of it. 



138. Falco sparverius sparverius (Linnaeus). Sparrow Hawk. — 

 Rare summer visitant. June 15, 30; July 8. The earliest of the above 

 ■dates in June, 1916, was the first occasion on which I had observed this 

 handsome little hawk. The bird was quite close to me so that identifica- 

 tion was an easy matter. On the latter date in June I saw another, and 

 one again on July S. Of course it is possible that these three examples 

 may have been one and the same bird, the dates certainly suggesting that 

 on occasions it may be a rare breeder in the neighborhood, in seeming 

 confirmation of which Mr. Greer tells me that he saw an adult bird with 

 young near Waterville in the summer of 1917. 



139. Asio wilsonianus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. — Rare resident. 



