O Great White Egret (Jlerodias alba 
gp egretta .—One of mj neighbors':procured 
O specimen August 11th, nearly two miles 
<1 from the seashore. It was following up a 
r* mill stream and he shot it from his door 
§ as it flew past. It was pure white, in 
young plumage, a long-legged, long- 
necked, stilty looking bird. The same 
Co person shot one of these birds in 1878, 
to the 2d of August. These are tjie only 
V birds of the species that I ever saw.— J■ 
,*| N. Clark, Old Sa.ybrook, Ct. 
White Heron (.Herodias alba egretta J 
shot at Saybrook, Conn., Aug. 11, 1882, by 
Mr. J. R. Chalker, and is now in my cabi- 
inet .—Jno. II. Sage , Portland, Conn ^ 
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Capture of Three Rare Birds near Hartford, Conn. — Ardea egretta. 
American Egret. —A bird (sex unknown) of this species was shot in 
this vicinity Aug. 14. 1SS3. Two or three more were reported seen near 
here in the same month, but I can vouch for the authenticity of only the 
one mentioned above. 
WJU** t. 
Auk, 4, Jan., 1887. p. 
X, , V /f. /. 
The American Egret in Connecticut. — On the 28th of July, 1899, a 
fine specimen of the American Egret, Ardea egretta, was brought me, 
having just been shot from a tree on the shore of a small pond in this 
town, Kent. As the person in question passed near the pond, the great 
white bird flew up from the shore, alighted on a low tree close by, remain¬ 
ing until he returned from the house with a gun, and manifesting no 
shyness. It was a male, but whether old or young I could not decide, 
as, though without plumes or long feathers, it was of full measurements, 
and showed no lingering adolescence. This occurrence, forty miles 
inland, is probably much more unusual than the appearance of this 
species on Long Island Sound. — Rev. Herbert K. Job, Kent, Conn. 
Auk, XVII, July. 1000, p. Wt. 
