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prevailed for ten days may have carried the bird north. About the same 

 time four "Portuguese Man-o-War" were picked up on South Beaches 

 near Chatham. — R. Heber Howe, Jr., Chatham, Mass. 



The Louisiana Heron {Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis) at Cape 

 May, N. J. — On August 1, 1920, about a mile west of Cape May, N. J., 

 I flushed a small flock of herons containing five individuals of the Little 

 Blue Heron {Florida caerulea) and one of the present species. The birds 

 settled in a shallow pond and were flushed again at closer range. On 

 both occasions the coloration of this bird could be distinctly seen both 

 with the naked eye and with the binoculars, and as I am familiar with the 

 species in the South I recognized it at once. Messrs. J. Fletcher Street 

 and Samuel Scoville, Jr., of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, were 

 with me at the time and also satisfactorily identified the bird. 



During the rest of the month the Little Blue Herons were seen almost 

 daily as well as individuals of the Wlu'te Egret (Herodias egretta), twenty 

 of the former and eleven of the latter being present, but on no occasion did 

 the Louisiana Heron again appear. New Jersey has always been in- 

 cluded in the range of this heron on the basis of the statements of Audubon 

 and Turnbull, that it occasionally migrated that far north, but so far as 

 I know there is no specimen extant from the State nor any definite record 

 of its occurrence. The above record therefore is of considerable interest 

 and is perhaps a further illustration of the benefits to be expected from 

 the protection that is being afforded these birds on their breeding grounds 

 on the Gulf coast. 



The present summer seems to have been a good one for " White Herons," 

 as my friend, John Treadwell Nichols, informs me that both the Little 

 Blue and the Egret reached Long Island during August. — Wither Stone, 

 Academy Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



The Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) on the New Jersey Coast- 

 On August 9, 1920, about a mile west of Cape May, N. J., a Marbled 

 Godwit flew past me at close range, coming from one of the small ponds 

 on the salt meadows and making for the beach. It was disturbed however 

 by some people walking there and did not alight, keeping on down the 

 coast just inside the surf. About half an hour later it returned and settled 

 on the edge of a shallow pond directly before me where I had an excellent 

 opportunity of studying its markings. As I can find no recent records of 

 its capture or occurrence on the New Jersey coast this observation seems 

 worthy of record. Old gunners of twenty-five or thirty years ago speak 

 of shooting Godwits, but it is not always clear which of the two species 

 they had obtained. We have two specimens of the Marbled Godwit in 

 the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia shot 

 at Wildwood, N. J., by Dr. W. L. Abbott, September 14, 1880, but several 

 more recent Godwit records are all the Hudsonian. — Witmer Stone, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



