Plorida caerulea. Cambridge?ort, Mass. 
T-t must have been in tbs early six.tiess,i81or 63, 
when .1 saw,for the first and only time,a little white 
not far from Whittemore "s point.lt was in the early 
fall,.September I think,after a stormy period of sev¬ 
eral days,and the marsh was being traversed in every 
direction by six or eight gunners’all af ter peeps.How 
the unfortunate heronhad eluded the scrutiny of so many 
eyes I know not,but when I espied it the bird was 
in the open marsh 
standing motionless#.though in a crouching attitude as 
rush bordered 
though thoroughly frightened, by a smallAoreek.lt was ver; 
tame'and allowed me to approach within easy range.’’y 
shot wounded it sorely,and no doubt it 'would have soon 
fallen,but^?t£ 
it down,and I lost the pri 
flight 
pass-near a gunner who brought 
i rfe . 
I remember that ©verone on the marsh gathered 
around the luoky sportsman to view and handle the strung 
bird, non© of them ever having seen such a oird before.. 
