262 ARDEIM: : HERONS. 



Mr. R. Deane notes a Grand Menan case, bird shot 

 Aug., 1879 (Bull. Nutt. Club, 1880, p. 63). 



Notwithstanding these summer occurrences, the 

 natural breeding of the Egret in New England remains 

 to be attested. 



As to occurrences of this Egret beyond us, may be 

 here noted the specimen examined by Mr. C. J. May- 

 nard, shot at Grand Menan, New Brunswick, November 

 3, 1878, as recorded by Mr. Ruthven Deane (Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, iv, 1879, P- 63), wno a ^ so notices in the same 

 place a Nova Scotian instance given by Mr. J. Matthew 

 Jones of Halifax (Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. Sci., ii, 

 1868, p. 72). 



SMALL WHITE HERON, OR EGRET. 

 GARZETTA CANDIDISSIMA (Gm.) Bp. 



Chars. Like the last in being entirely white at all seasons and 

 ages, but much smaller. An occipital crest, a recurved dorsal 

 train, and lengthened feathers of the lower neck, in the breeding 

 season. Lores, eyes and toes yellow ; bill and legs black, former 

 yellow at base, latter yellow at lower part behind. Length about 

 24.00; extent, 36.00-40.00; wing, 9.50-11.00; tail, 4.00; bill, 

 3.00 or more ; tarsus, 3.75 ; tibiae bare 2.50. 



This is another of New England's rarities, occurring 

 under nearly the same conditions as the Great White 

 Egret, though more seldom. There are early Massachu- 

 setts records, as in the other case, but all of them 

 " shaky," as is probably also Mr. Putnam's notice of 

 1856. In 1864, Allen adduces an instance of the oc- 

 currence of the bird near Boston, in 1862, and says for 

 Massachusetts that " stragglers have been taken in a few 



