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103. Ardea herodias Linn. GREAT BLUE HERON. 

 A rather common migrant ; rare in winter. 



March 17 to May (June 25) ; July 15 to November 26 (Win- 

 ter). 



Amherst: Occasional in spring and fall. Berkshire : " Not common, 

 chiefly in spring arid autumn, .... no positive evidence of its breeding." 

 Bristol County: "Common transient visitant." Brookline : "A not 

 uncommon migrant." Winter. Cambridge : Common transient visitant. 

 Occasional in summer. Cohasset : " Common in fall and spring." Ded- 

 ham : " Regular visitor in the migrations." Essex County : "Summer 

 visitant. Common." Ipswich : " Rather common transient visitant." 

 Nantucket: " Common in September." Springfield : " A transient visi- 

 tor." Templeton: "A rare summer resident, [?] common in the fall." 

 Wellesley: " Common migrant." 



104. Ardea egretta Gmel. AMERICAN EGRET. 



An occasional summer visitant. There are records from the 

 following localities: Ashland, Dedham, Hudson, Ipswich, Lynn, 

 Nantucket, North Hadley, Plymouth, Quincy, Springfield, Tops- 

 field, Wellesley, West Brookfield and Westford. The last record 

 is: Nantucket, one taken September 23, 1890. l 



April, May, August, September, November. 



105. Ardea caerulea Linn. LITTLE BLUE HERON. 



Accidental from the south. The records are : Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts,"'*, specimen in the State agricultural Cabinet"; 2 Cohas- 

 set, a male in immature plumage shot about 1852 by a Mr. Morse ; 3 

 Newton, seen " on one or two occasions in autumn " by Mr. C. J. 

 Maynard; 4 Ipswich, one taken August 10, 1881, and now in 

 the collection of the Boston Society of Natural History ; Bourne, 

 a flock of about six, all in white plumage was seen by Mr. O. 

 Bangs, in midsummer 1881 : one was shot by Mr. A. Hardy. 



1 06. Ardea candidissima Gmel. SNOWY HERON. 



An accidental visitant from the south. The records are: Near 



iMackay; Auk, Vol. VIII, No. i, Jan., 1891, p. 120. 



2 Allen ; Proc. Essex Inst., Vol. IV, 1864, p. 86. 



3 Brewer; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XIX, 1878, p. 259. 



4 Maynard; Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 143 and Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. Ill, 

 No. 12, Feb., 1870, p. 637, p. 39 of separate. 



