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observers confuse young Night Herons with Bitterns. The 

 latter have black-tipped wings, sharply streaked necks, and a 

 buffy-brown, rather than a grayish-brown color effect. 



Bitterns arrive on their breeding grounds about the middle 

 of April. Migrants can be found up to the end of May. In 

 October and November they are common, and more generally 

 distributed than any other time of the year. 



Long Island. Common transient, rare and local summer 

 resident, rare in winter. (April 3) April 16 to November 18 (rarely 

 to December and January). Nest with two young and two eggs 

 found June 14, 1914 on Jones Beach (R. L. Peavey), and another 

 found in the same place May 27, 1922 (Crosby, Griscom, Janvrin, 

 Johnson). 



ORIENT. Formerly common, now a rare transient; one 

 breeding record, Orient, 1910; occasionally winters. April 3, 

 1907 to May 10, 1917; July 25, 1909 to December 6, 1912. 

 MASTIC. Fairly common transient, rare summer resident. 

 LONG BEACH. Apparently uncommon in the spring, April 

 12, 1917(Bicknell) to June 9, 1921 and July 7, 1921 (Bicknell); 

 regular in the fall, August 16, 1919 (Hix and Rogers) to De- 

 cember 24, 1920 (Bicknell) ; the 1921 dates indicate that the 

 bird doubtless breeds. 



New York State. Now a rare transient in our area, and prob- 

 ably extirpated as a summer resident. 



CENTRAL PARK. Casual transient; May 10, 1886 (E. T. 

 Adney); May 10, 1898 (S. H. Chubb); April 19, 1903 (C. G. 

 Abbott and M. S. Crosby); May 17, 1917 (Janvrin). 



BRONX REGION. Now a rare transient. Bred in 1917 in a 

 swamp near the Gun Hill Road R. R. station. An early arrival 

 date is April 5, 1913 (G. Kingsley Noble). Noted October 14, 

 1905 (Hix) in a locality long since destroyed. 

 New Jersey. In our area a fairly common transient, wherever 

 suitable conditions still exist. Still breeding locally near New York 

 City, and increasing northwestward. In the more remote sections 

 of Sussex and Warren Counties, almost every marsh, swamp, or 

 bog contains a pair, and there is much suitable territory unex- 

 plored, but I have never seen it in the higher swamps of the Kit- 

 tatiny Ridge, Bearfort, or Wawayanda Mountains. Earliest spring 

 arrival April 3, 1921 near Plainfield (Miller). 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Regular transient, commonest in 

 fall; probably breeds in the Overpeck Marshes, where it has 



