The American Egret (Herodias egretta) in the Catskill Mountains.— 
On July 18, 1906, I saw at East Windham, New York, three of these birds 
on the topmost branches of a tree near a hemlock swamp and secured one 
of them, and another on the following day. Both birds were young females, 
and undoubtedly, according to a peculiar habit of the family to wander 
northward during the latter part of the summer, were erratic visitors in 
this locality. Upon inquiry among several inhabitants, I was informed 
that this species had never been seen by them in this locality before, nor 
had they bred there, and that the flock consisted of six birds on July 16, 
two days before my arrival.— J. A. Weber, New York City. 
AaS, XX111, OcA, .1908, p . ^ J~7. 
An Egret on Long Island. — In connection with Mr. R. Heber Howe, 
Jr.’s note on the American Egret, in the April ‘Auk,’ and the one by 
Mr. G. Kingsley Noble to which he refers, I would like to report a single 
bird of this species which I observed at Mastic, Long Island, where it is 
very rare, on August 9, 1913. It was identified with certainty.— John 
Treadwell Nichols, New York, N. Y. 
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