44 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 



control of my friend, the late H. S. Bloodgood, who gave orders 

 that the birds should not be disturbed or molested in any way. 

 He informed me that in August he noted five birds there on 

 several occasions, and was sure three of them were young birds, 

 and that they were raised there. It certainly looks as if it were 

 possible." On account of the uncertainty of this record, how- 

 ever, the species has not been included in the List of Breeding 

 Birds. 



(68) 200. Ardea caerulea Linn. Little Blue Heron. — 

 A young bird, in white plumage, was taken at Warwick, on 

 July 13, 1878.' Mr. H. A. Talbot records several Snowy Herons 

 {Ardea candidissima) being seen on June 7, 1884, in the south- 

 ern part of the State, but Mr. F. T. Jencks corrects this state- 

 ment, and suggests that the birds he saw might have been Little 

 Blue Herons.^ Mr. Newton Dexter writes that a young male 

 was taken at Sakonnet, August, 1892, now in Dr. Gardiner's col- 

 lection, and he recalls an adult bird that was taken near Provi- 

 dence and mounted by Mr. John Hague, Taxidermist, about 

 twenty-five years ago. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that Mr. J. 

 W. Critchley, Taxidermist, " had a young bird sent in to him on 

 July 24, 1899, from Wakefield by Mr. Silas Wright." 



(69) 201. Ardea virescens Linn. Green Heron. " .Fly- 

 up-tke-creek." — A common summer resident. 



April 20 to September 10 (October). 



(70) 202. Nycticorax nyticorax naevius (Bodd.). Black- 

 crowned Night Heron. Night Heron. Shitepoke. Quwark. — 

 A common summer resident, wintering rarely, certainly very much 

 less commonly than in Massachusetts. Formerly there was a 

 large herony near Mount Hope, and Mr. O. Durfee writes that 

 " as late as 1894 there was a large one on Prudence Island," 



> Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. V, No. 2, p. 123. 



Allen's Revised List Birds of Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 235. 



^O. & O., Vol. 9, No. 7, p. 80 and No. 8, p. 103. 



