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A fine specimen of tlie American Egret was shot on 
Prudence Island, a few miles from Providence, R.I., 
August 17, 1888. J. M. Southwick. 
° & °- XIV. Apr. 1889 p.Q3 
An American Egret was shot by E. W. 
Champlin, in cedar swamp, Ocean View, 
R.I., first of June. C. G. Du nn . 
0. & O. Vol. 18, June, 1893 p. 94 
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An Egret in Rhode Island.— Messrs. Angell & Cash of Providence R I 
permit me to record the capture of an immature male Egret ’ 
egretla) at Point Judith, August 2, 1909. The bird was brought to them 
m be mounted.— Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Concord, Mass. 
Aok 27. Jan-UJIO ft. y? 
American Egret ( Herodias egretta ) in Rhode Island. Seeing Mr. 
Noble’s record of the American Egret on Martha’s Vineyard reminds me 
to record the following observation. In August, either on the 15th or lb , 
1913 while crossing the road that skirts the salt marsh just after crossing 
Stone Bridge, Tiverton, on to the Island of Rhode Island, I noticed from 
an automobile a white heron-I think undoubtedly of this species - feed¬ 
ing by one of the pools. Mr. Lyman Underwood, who was spending 
the summer in the same township with me (Nonquitt, Mass.), saw severa 
white herons a day or so later at the same place, as he also passed m Ins 
automobile, and later I was asked by residents of Wareham Mass., if 
white herons should be seen in that locality. Apparently there was a 
