A Third Maine Specimen of the Little Blue Heron. — Early in April 
of the current year, I received from Mr. Herbert A. Arey of Vinal Haven, 
Me., a specimen of Ardea coerulea , to be mounted for Mr. Arey. His 
letter, dated April 2, 1902, states : “The bird was shot yesterday at the 
east end of Carver’s Pond, Vinalhaven.” It was a male, a fine specimen 
in the light phase, and was in good bodily condition ; it would probably 
have bred had it not strayed from its kind and home. 
The two other Maine records are : A bird in light phase, Scarborough, 
September, 1881 (Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, p. 123). A female, 
Popham Beach, May 19, 1901 (Spinney in Swain’s editorial, Journ. Maine 
Orn. Soc, III, p. 30). - f^ooA, A/e. ^ 
Little Blue Heron (Florida coerulea) in Vermont —While on Mon¬ 
tebello Hill, Newbury, Vt., on August 16 , 1912 , between 5 and 6.30 p. m., 
I was looking down upon a swampy meadow which lies below and in which 
the Bittern makes its home, and saw something unusual moving about. 
Using my field glasses I saw that it was a white heron wading slowly in the 
water. It was not so large at the Great Blue Heron with which I was 
familiar and was pure white except the tips of the wings which were a 
soft gray — evidently the Little Blue Heron in immature plumage. I 
could not see the legs as the water came nearly up to the body. 
It moved very slowly and deliberately feeding among the plants which 
grew in the water. I watched it for half an hour or more until it passed 
out of sight around a curve. It made no call of any kind. Anna E. 
Cobb, Providence, R. /■ 
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