Brewer. ]. nA pee [May 7, 
some time, and Mr. Merrill was interested to learn that Mr, 
Audubon procured the only living species that he had ever seen of 
this species, in Bangor in 1832. And Feb, 26, 1879, Mr. Outram 
Bangs procured a female example near Newton, Mass. 
Florida caerulea Baird. The occurrence of the Small Blue 
Heron in New England is not so frequent as to render it undesirable 
to establish every authentic record of its presence. The Society dur- 
ing the last year has come into possession of an example of this 
species, in the immature plumage. It was shot at Cohasset about 
ten years since by Henry D. Morse, Esq., and has been by him added 
to our New England collection. 
Nyctiardea violacea Baird. Mr. Wm. Brewster records in 
the April (1879) Bulletin the second capture of a Yellow-crowned 
Heron within the State of Massachusetts. It was taken on the 30th 
of July, 1878, in a densely populated part of Somerville. The ex- 
ample was in immature plumage and apparently very young. The 
examples of the wandering disposition of this species are somewhat 
noteworthy. Specimens have been taken in the mountains of Col- 
orado, and on the plains of Kansas. In one case in the last named 
State the female parent was accompanied by her three young, hardly 
able to fly. Yet it is not known to breed anywhere in that neighbor- 
hood. 
Ibis falcinellus. Early in May, 1878, quite a number of this 
species, so infrequent in New England, was taken in various places 
on Cape Cod. (Bull. Nutt. Club, m1, 151,152). Mr. Frank L. Tile- 
ston informs me that in the following August several specimens of 
what were called black curlews were noticed on Prince Edward 
Island ; one of them was shot by a gentleman of Boston but was not 
preserved. Although inconclusive this evidence seems to indi- 
cate the presence of this specimen in a locality north of the United 
States. 
Recurvirostra americana Gm. Mr. N. C. Brown mentions 
(Bull. Nutt. Club, rv, p. 108) several instances in which the Avocet 
has been known to occur in Maine, one was near Cape Elizabeth, 
‘Nov. 5th, 1878, but this is the only instance that can be traced to an 
authentic source. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus Lawrence. A beautiful ex- 
ample of this form,— be it race or species,— was shot by Mr. Frank 
L. Tileston, and is now in the Museum of the Boston Nat. Hist. 
Society. It was procured at Eastham, Nov. 2,1878. It was in the 
plumage, with the elongate bill, etc., so eminently typical of this form 
