>, aadi Q- 
316. Little.Blue Heron. By John N. Clark. Ibid., VI, p. 51.—Half 
a dozen in immature plumage taken at Saybrook, Conn., Aug. 12, 1881. 
Auk, XIV, Oct. ,1897, p.vo*. 
Capture of the Little Blue Heron in Connecticut. — A local gunner 
reported the capture of a strange Heron on August 4. Unfortunately it 
was sent off to be mounted before I could sex or even see it. The bird 
has just been shown me, however, mounted, and proves to be an adult 
Ardea ccerulea (sex, as I said before, unknown). The man who secured 
the specimen said that he found it in a small fresh-water ‘ pond hole ’ 
near this place. It was in company with another of the same species, and 
owing to their extreme shyness it w r as nearly a week before he could 
succeed in getting this one. The individual secured is in perfect 
plumage. — P. J. McCook, Niantic, Ct. 
The Little Blue Heron (Ardea ccerulea ) in Connecticut. — On July 
2i, 1899, I saw no less then seven individuals of this species, all voung 
birds, in white plumage. On the 25th I secured one, and a few days 
later another; there were five shot all together. The remaining two 
left and were not seen again. The flock spent about two weeks here, 
feeding on the salt marshes. This is the first and only time that I have 
met with Ardea ccerulea , in Connecticut. — Arthur William Brockway, 
Old Lyme , Conn. Auk, XVI, Oct. , 1899, p. 3 i~/. 
Little Blue Heron in Connecticut.— A flock of Little Blue Ilerons 
(Florida ccerulea ), all young in the white plumage, made its headquarters 
during a large part of this summer on a chain of three ponds connected 
by the Patagansett Stream, township of East Lyme, near this village. 
Two were recorded on July 22, and until August 18 from one to ten were 
present on one or another of the ponds every day. After August 18 they 
disappeared until Sept. 7, when two returned and were then seen for the 
last time. 
I personally observed them from July 25 to July 31 inclusive and on the 
28 took one, which upon dissection proved to be a female. The crop was 
full of small fish, species not determinable by reason of decomposition. 
This specimen is now in the county collection of Mr. James H. Mill, New 
London. 
The birds were not very wild, and gave me an opportunity to watch 
them from a short distance. It has been sometimes said that they are 
silent except on the roost, but I heard them on several occasions, while 
feeding on the pond margins, utter a low chuckling or croaking sound.— 
P. J. McCook, Niantic , Conn. Anfe, XXU, J,:va., 1905 , P- 7 ^~ 77 - 
