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ton knew of no breeding records, but spoke of seeing young 

 birds. His statements seem to indicate that he regarded the 

 occurrence of this heron in Ohio as the result of a northward 

 migration after the breeding season. I have been unable to 

 find any actual breeding records. One of the two Lorain 

 county specimens, taken by Mr. R. E. Jump, near Oberlin, 

 was found during the spring. The majority of occurrences 

 seem to fall in July and August. 



64. (197.) EGRETTA CANDIDISSIMA (Gmel.). 187. 



Snowy Heron. 



Synonyms: Garzetta candidissima, Ardea candidissima. 



Little White Egret. 

 Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1860, 368, 377. 



The occurrence of this heron in the state nearly duplicates 

 that just given for the American Egret. While every record 

 is regarded as practically accidental for that county in which 

 the record falls, it is significant that the records cover prac- 

 tically all of the state except the extreme northwestern and 

 extreme southeastern parts. On the lake shore, Erie, Lo- 

 rain, Lake, Ashtabula ; inland, Licking, Hardin, Defiance ; 

 and Hamilton on the southwestern border are certainly rep- 

 resentative of the whole state. With our present knowledge 

 of this bird we must regard it as rare and irregular as a 

 summer visitor. 



65. (200.) FLORIDA C^ERULEA (Linn.). . 



Little Blue Heron. 



Synonym: Ardea cserulea. 



Entered as hypothetical by Wheaton, Reprint, Ohio Agri. Re 

 port, 1861, 21, and also in his 1882 Catalogue. Also as hypo- 

 thetical by Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 15. The first 

 published record of this species as imquestionablv a bird of 

 Ohio is as follows: 



McCormick, L. M., Auk, X, Oct., 1892, 397. Record of a bird 

 captured near Oberlin by Mr. R. E. Jump, about 1882. 



The distribution of this little heron in Ohio is hardly less 

 irregular than that of the two egrets. Since the publication 

 of the Lorain county specimen others have been taken in 



