COUES, BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND. 289 



Quail. Of exceptional and entirely accidental occur- 

 rence, and not really entitled to a place in the list, as the 

 specimens captured were doubtless cage-birds. ("Bridge- 

 port, Ct., Dec., 1840"; Lins., p. 264.) 



LAGOPID.E. 



Lagopus albus Aud. White Ptarmigan. Rare, in 

 winter, in more northern portions. Hardly known as a 

 straggler so far south as Massachusetts. ("Northern 

 Maine, in winter; rare;" Verr., p. 22. Omitted from 

 8am. O. O.) 



No. 860. White plumage. Manchester, Essex Co., May 10, 1859 ; 

 but supposed to have been brought alive from Labrador or Newfound- 

 land and escaped. 



No. 76, $ Summer plumage, Sukkertoppen, Greenland, July 30, 

 1862. From the Williams College Lyceum, 1864. 



No. 94. White plumage. Great Slave Lake. K. Kennicott. From 

 the Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1864. 



I am not confident that these three specimens are of the same spe- 

 cies ; or that albus is their proper name. 



GRUID.E. 

 GRUS CANADENSIS Temm. Sand-hill Crane. 



Nos. 1034; 1035. Bloomington, 111. Dr. E. S. L. Kichardson. 



The Whooping Crane, G. Americanos, has been at- 

 tributed to New England by one author. (Emm., p. 5 ; 

 and quoted by Putn., p. 229.) No recent writers pre- 

 sent it. Its occurrence must be regarded as extremely 

 problematical. 



ARDEHXE. 



Ardea herodias Linn. Great Blue Heron. "Blue 

 Crane." Summer resident. Common. 



No. 996, $. Essex Co. J. Webster, 1856. 



No. 997, $ , young. Essex Co. 



No. 464, . Newburyport, Essex Co. 



Herodias egretta Gray. Great White Egret. Rare 

 summer visitant ; hardly farther north than Massachu- 

 setts. No part of New England is within its regular 

 range ; and its occurrence must be considered accidental, 



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