32 CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 



Ardea egretta. 



AMERICAN EGRET. 



Mr. SAUNDERS considers that this is a regular, though rare, 

 visitor to Southern Ontario; elsewhere in Canada^ it is merely 

 accidental. Mr. SCOTT reports that two specimens were shot in 

 the Upper Ottawa, in latitude 47 50' ; Mr. HERRCHFELDER 

 secured another in Lake Nippissing; Mr. COMEAU has seen one 

 at Point des Monts ; Mr. JONES records one taken at Halifax, 

 and three have been captured in New Brunswick. 



Ardea candidissima. 



SNOWY HERON. 



An accidental straggler from the south. Mr. JONES reports 

 that one specimen has been taken at Windsor, N. S. ; Mr. BOARD- 

 MAN has two that were captured near the mouth of the Bay of 

 Fundy; Mr. FANNIN has taken one at Burrard Inlet, and another 

 in the Fraser River, and Mr. MC!LWRAITH, on the authority of 

 Dr. GARNIER, reports the capture of one at Mitchell's Bay. 



This last note is inserted in The Birds of Ontario under the head- 

 ing of A. egretta, but, as Dr. GARNIER is quoted as naming the specimen 

 "Garzelta candidissima Little White Heron," it is obvious that it 

 should be referred to the present species. Mr. MC!LWRAITH reports 

 that the error was made by the printer. 



Ardea ccerulea. 



L.ITTXE BLUE HERON. 



Mr. J. MATTHEW JONES reports that one example of this 

 species was taken at Cole Harbour, near Halifax, during the sum- 

 mer of 1884. 



