iSSS.l Scott. Supplementary Notc$ on Florida Binh. 183 



25. Mimus polyglottos. Mockingbird.— Mr. Arthur Teppcr, of Flat- 

 bush, Kings Co., brought to me a specimen of tliis species for indentifica- 

 tion, and informed me that it had been sliot in his neighborhood, in the 

 early part of November, 1SS4. lie also stated that another one had been 

 shot a short time previously in the same locality. On two other occasions 

 he saw what he was positive were Mockingbirds, both being in the sum- 

 mer. Mr. Giraud says of it : "This unrivalled songster occasionally 

 passes the season of reproduction on Long Island." * 



j6. Thyothorus ludovicianus. C.\rolina Wren. — Since my previous 

 recordt another specimen has been brought to my notice bv one of mv 

 correspondents, Mr. Henry Hicks, of Westbury Station, (^^leens Co., who 

 now has it in his collection. He secured it the latter part of March, 1SS6. 

 It was first seen March 22. about an open hovel, and remained about the 

 place until the 25th, when it was shot. 



SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES FROM THE GULF COAST 



OF FLORIDA, WITH A DESCRIPTION OF A 



NEW SPECIES OF MARSH WREN. 



HV W. E. D. SCOTT. 



Chen hyperborea nivalis. Greater Snow Goose — Mr. J. W. Atkins, 

 of Key West, Florida, has kindly forwarded to me a represeiitati\e of this 

 subspecies taken near Punta Rassa, Florida. There were four indi\ idiial 

 in the flock from which this specimen was obtained. This is the oulv 

 record resulting from four years' work on this coast. 



Ardea wardi. Ward's Heron. — The references to Ardea /lerodias in 

 my recent papers on the 'The Present Condition of some of the Bird 

 Rookeries of the Gulf Coast of Florida' (Auk, Vol. IV, pp. 135, 213, and 

 273) should probably all be attributed to this species. Ardea herodias, 

 so far as I am now aware, does not occur on the Gulf coast of Florida 

 south of the mouth of the Withlacooche River. In the vicinity of 

 Tarpon Springs, Hillsboro County, Ward's Heron is still a compara- 

 tively abundant bird. It breeds in colonics of varying size, not less than 

 three, or more than twenty-five pairs being associated together. The 

 localities chosen for breeding are generally small islands having a consid- 

 erable growth of trees, and with open expanses of fresh -\vatei- on all sides. 

 Such islands are frequently to be found in cypress swamps and are 

 apparently the favorite breeding resorts. Mating begins in late Decem- 

 ber or early January and by the middle or last of the latter month the 



* Birds of Long Island, p. 82. 

 tAuk.Vol, III, i886,p.442. 



