264 ARDEID^E : HERONS. 



E. A. Samuels notes a definite case from Barnstable, 

 spring of 1861 (Orn. and Ool. N. E., 1867, App.). Mr. 

 Allen has noted its occurrence in Massachusetts. 

 There are several late authentic Connecticut records. 

 According to Merriam, " Mr. Dayan saw a small Heron 

 on Lake Whitney, in April, 1877, which he supposes to 

 have been this species. In the cabinet of Mr. Coe, of 

 Portland, Conn., is a beautiful specimen of this species 

 which he shot in that vicinity early in July, 1875. . . . 

 There were two of them together, but the other escaped. 

 Mr. Erwin I. Shores, of Suffield, Conn., writes me that 

 one was shot there about the middle of May by Mr. 

 Chas. Newton" (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. in). 



Dr. Brewer records that the Boston Society of 

 Natural History has an example of this species, in 

 immature plumage, shot at Cohasset, about 1869, by 

 Mr. Henry D. Morse (Pr. Bost. Soc., xx, 1879, P- 2 7 2 )- 



The species has recently been added to the Avifauna 

 of Maine, by Mr. N. C. Brown, who notes a specimen 

 captured on the Scarborough Marsh in Sept., 1881, by 

 Mr. Winslow Pilsbury (Bull. Nutt. Club, vii, 1882, 

 P- 123). 



GREEN HERON. 



BUTORIDES VIRESCENS (Linn.} Cab. 



Chars. Of smallest size in the family (excepting the Least Bittern). 

 Adult in breeding season with the crown and occipital crest and 

 lengthened narrow feathers of back glossy green, sometimes with 

 a bronzy iridescence, the dorsal plumes in high plumage with a 

 glaucous bluish cast. Wing-coverts green, with tawny edgings ; 

 neck purplish-chestnut, the throat line varied with dusky and 

 white. Under parts mostly dark brownish-ash ; belly variegated 



