344 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



Cooke states that "a few nest on Southampton and Nottingham 

 Islands in Hudson Bay." The latter island is not far from the north- 

 west coast of Labrador. 



[Olor buccinator (Rich.). Trumpeter Swan. — The statement of Robert 

 Bell ('83) that this species breeds on the islands off the East Main coast 

 of Hudson Bay, doubtless applies instead to 0. columbianus.] 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Montag.). 

 American Bittern. 



Very rare summer visitor. 



In all probability the Bittern occasionally breeds on the southwest 

 shores of Labrador as it is well known to do on Anticosti, but no 

 positive evidence on this point has as yet been obtained. Coues 

 found a wing in the possession of a hunter in southern Labrador, 

 and Bigelow speaks of seeing two or three birds at Cape St. Francis, 

 north of St. Lewis Sound. Robert Bell states that this species "is 

 found on both sides of Hudson's Bay." 



Ardea herodias Linn. 

 Great Blue Heron. 



Accidental visitor. 



This species is a straggler in Labrador, for which we have found 

 but a single record, viz., that of one seen near Whitefish Lake, Fort 

 Chimo, Ungava, by John Saunders of the Hudson's Bay company, 

 in the summer of 1880 (Turner, '85). 



Florida caerulea (Linn.). 

 Little Blue Heron. 



Accidental visitor. 



"Oh May 23, 1900, a Little Blue Heron was brought to Mr. 



Ernest Doane at Lance au Loup, Labrador, by a man who had shot it 



there a day or two before The specimen (No. 4433, Coll. of E. 



A. & O. Bangs) is a young male just emerging from the white plum- 



