128 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



traffic, and were successfully photographed with kodaks by 

 several people. One remained until October 9. The next year 

 a single bird reappeared, and was present July 19 to August 5 

 (S. H. Chubb). 



New Jersey. Rare or casual summer visitor. Stone in the 

 Birds of New Jersey (1909) gives only one record for our area, near 

 Ridgewood, July 1902. Other records are Sussex, August 7, 1911 

 (Kuser) and Bernardsville, August 5, 1915 (Kuser). C. C. Owen 

 reports two shot at Maplewood, July 27, 1897. This record is 

 given under the Little Blue Heron by Dr. Stone without explanation. 

 One record near Raritan (Miller). Least rare on the marshes of 

 Newark Bay; flock of 20 summer of 1907; August 4, 1917; July 

 31 to September 18, 1921 (Urner). Two seen near Branchville, 

 Sussex County, August 4, 1918 (G. Clyde Fisher, Auk, 1919, p. 101). 



LOUISIANA HERON (Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis) 

 This southern species has occurred accidentally on one 

 occasion on Long Island, a single specimen shot near Pat- 

 chogue in the summer of 1836, as reported by Giraud. 



LITTLE BLUE HERON (Florida cserulea) 

 Like the Egret, the Little Blue Heron is a rare summer 

 visitant, perhaps a little commoner than its large relative on 

 the coast, but equally rare inland. Strangely enough it 

 occurs also very rarely in spring on Long Island, for which 

 there is no ready explanation at hand. Adults in the blue 

 plumage are much scarcer than white birds. 



There is an unnecessary amount of confusion in identify- 

 ing these Herons. Observers seem inclined to magnify Little 

 Blue Herons into Egrets, and also occasionllay confuse the 

 adult Little Blue and the Green Heron. Again small white 

 Herons are assumed to be Snowy Egrets, a species long since 

 extirpated in the northeastern states, and I have accepted 

 no sight records of it. A white Little Blue Heron has green- 

 ish-yellow legs and feet, the Snowy Egret has black legs and 

 yellow feet, and it requires very close range to determine this 

 accurately. Any small white Heron may safely be called a 



