Ihe Little Blue Heron in Maine. —During the summer of 1881 a 
small white Heron took up his abode in a dense swamp bordeiing the 
eastern side of Scarborough Marsh. He foraged regularly about the neigh¬ 
boring ponds and rivers, and before autumn had been seen and unsuccess¬ 
fully shot at by many covetous gunners. In September, however, he fell 
captive to the wUes of Mr. Winslow Pilsbury, and now reposes in the 
cabinet of Mr. Chas. H. Chandler, of Cambridge, Mass. Before writing 
Mr. Chandler, to ascertain the species represented by his specimen, I 
learned that Mr. Henry A. Purdie* had seen the bird and pronounced ’ it 
the Little Blue Heron (Florida ccerulea). No previous instance of its 
occurrence in Maine is on record. — Nathan Clifford Brown. Port¬ 
land, Maine. Bull. N. O.O, 7 , April, 1882, p, /£3 . 
* It should be stated that Mr. Purdie, with characteristic courtesy, declines to publish 
this note as, after discovering his prior knowledge of the specimen, I requested him to do. 
