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The Ptarmigan (Lagopus albus) , captured at Manchester 

 in May, 1859,* is supposed, Dr. Coues states, "to have been 

 brought alive from Labrador or Newfoundland, and es- 

 caped."! 



GREAT WHITE HERON. Herodias egretta Gray. To the 

 previously recorded instances of the capture of this beautiful 

 southern Egret in this state may be added the following. 

 Two immature specimens were taken near Hudson by Mr. 

 S. Jillson in 1867, and several others seen there. A fully 

 plumaged male was also taken in Ashland in May several 

 years since by Mr. A. L. Babcock, and another near Lynn, 

 by Mr. N. Vickary. New Jersey seems to be the most 

 northern point on the Atlantic coast where these birds breed, 

 or at which they can be considered as regular visitors, yet 

 this species, as well as the Snowy Heron (Garzetta candidis- 

 sima) , have recently been captured in Nova Scotia. J 



LITTLE BLUE HERON. Florida cmmlea Baird. In addi- 

 tion to the previously recorded instances of its occurrence in 

 Massachusetts, Mr. Maynard informs me he has recently seen 

 it on one or two occasions in autumn. 



YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT HERON. Hy ether odi us mold- 

 ceus Reich. Mr. N. Vickary, of Lynn, the well known 

 taxidermist, informs me that in October, 1862, he shot a fine 

 specimen of this bird in Lynn. Though occurring occasion- 

 ally as far north along the coast as New York, I have learned 

 of no other instance of its capture in New England. 



GLOSSY IBIS. Ibis Ordii Bon. In addition to those 

 previously recorded as having been captured in Massachu- 

 setts, a specimen was taken in Nantucket, September, 1869. 

 It was also taken, as I learn from Mr. N. Vickary, in New 

 Hampshire, in October, 1858, by Dr. Palmer. 



WILSON'S PLOVER. Ochthodromus Wilsonius Reich. The 

 usual northern limit reached by this bird seems to be the 



*F. W. Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. ii, p. 378. 



|Ibid.,Vol v, p. 289. 



I J. Matthew Jones, Trans. Nova Scotia Inst. Nat. Sci., Vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 72 (1868). 



