The Little Blue Heron in Rhode Island. — Although this rare 
accidental straggler from the South has been recorded as far north as the 
Massachusetts coast, yet its occurrence anywhere in New England is note¬ 
worthy. 
Mr. E. T. Jencks informs me of the capture of a young specimen in 
white plumage, which was shot at Warwick, R. I, July 13 , 1878 , and 
brought to him for preservation. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 
Bull. N.O.C. 5,April, i 860 , p, /x3. 
