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counted thirteen nests in a clump of Negundo aceroides on June 

 i6th, 1894. Breeds also on Vancouver Island. {Spreadborough.') 

 Heronries are now generally deserted in the vicinity of London, 

 Ont., and the birds are much less common than formerly. Single 

 nests are now more and more the rule. Eggs, four and five, some- 

 times spotted with deep black. ( W. Saunders^ 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One taken near Ottawa, by Mr. G. R. White ; another in Tor- 

 onto marsh by Mr. S. Herring. One set of eggs taken at Chat- 

 ham, Ont., April 30th, i88q, and received from Mr. Raine. 



195. European Blue Heron. 



Ardea cinerea Linn. 1758. 



Said by Crantz to have been seen in South Greenland, August 

 27th, 1765 ; a young bird found dead near Nenortalik in 1856 

 was sent to Copenhagen. Arct.Man.) Several specimens taken 

 since 1856. {Winge.) 



196. American Egret. 



Ardea egretta Gmel. i 788. 



Casual in summer in Nova Scotia. {Downs.) One shot at 

 Grand Manan, New Brunswick, in 1878. {C. J. Mayruird.) This 

 species was seen by Mr. Comeau at Godbout on the St. Lawrence 

 in 1882. (Dionne.) A rare visitor in the Montreal district. A 

 pair was observed at Beauharnois in the fall of 1889 ^"^^ o^^^ 

 shot; another example was taken in the summer of 1891 at Isle 

 aux Noix, forty miles from Montreal. There is a record in The 

 Auk, vol. II., page no, of a pair seen at Rockliffe, on the Ottawa 

 River, in the spring of 1883. The male was obtained and is now 

 in the Museum at Ottawa. These were adults, but the specimen 

 in my collection, which was obtained at Rondeau, near the west 

 end of Lake Erie, and others which I have heard of along our 

 southern border, were all young birds. {Mcllwraith.) An adult 

 specimen of this species was shot on Duck Bay, Lake Winnipe- 

 goosis, in 1888, by Mr. David Armit. This I believe is the north- 

 ernmost record for the species. {Seton-Thompson in TIte Auk, 

 Vol., X, p. 49.) 



