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(64) 190. Botaurus lentiginosus (Montag.). AMERICAN 
BITTERN. — A common migrant and uncommon summer resident. 
April 6 to November ro. 
(65) 191. Ardetta exilis (Gmel.). Least Birrern.— A 
common summer resident. It breeds in all the reedy marshes 
of the State.! There is a record for early arrival, March 1, 
1881, at Providence,? and also a winter record for February 28, 
1881.8 
March 1 to September 3. 
(66) 194. Ardea herodias Linn. Great BLiue HERON. 
Crane.— Common migrant, seen feeding during migrations along 
the rocky shores and about the inland ponds. 
April 17 to 30. July rs to October 16. 
(67) 196. Ardea egretta Gmel. American Ecret.—A 
bird was shot on Prudence Island, August 17, 1888, in the col- 
lection of Brown University, another was shot by Mr. E. W. 
Champlin, in a cedar swamp, at Ocean View, on June 1, 1893,° 
and Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that “after a severe northeast 
storm one was shot near Tiverton Four Corners on October 12, 
1894, now the property of Mr. S. W. Williams of Providence,” 
and one was also killed near Newport in 1896. Mr. Hathaway 
also writes “that an adult male has lately come into his pos- 
session, shot on the Sakonnet River at Tiverton, by an Italian 
farmer, on August 15, 1899. Mr. Newton Dexter writes in 
regard to a rumor of the possible breeding of this species in the 
State, “Five years ago this summer (1894) I noted a pair of 
Egrets in early June, which were every day to be seen about 
Narrow River and Wesquage Pond (Narragansett Pier). On 
the northwest side of the pond is a dense swamp, or was then, 
and the birds frequented that. The pond was then under the 
EOE EE Sy COS SL ee LEA De Jn) OG 
10. & O., Vol..5, No. 10, p. 78. 
? Nut. Orn. Club Bull., Vol. VI, No. 35 Pa TOO. 
Pie Oy Vole 6, NG. i; p. 8s 
Coues and Stearns, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 274. 
*O. & O., Vol. 54, No. 45. DaOGs 
°O. & O., Vol. 18, No. 6, p. 94. 
