A Blue Heron’s Meal.—There is a heronry not far from my home, and 
during the breeding season the great broad-winged birds can be seen day 
and night flying between their nests and the seaside. I once surprised 
one ready to start back with its finny burden, and becoming alarmed it 
disgorged ten good-sized fish before it mounted into the air. Is this not 
an unusual load for this bird to carry? —Francis Bain, North River , 
P. E. I. Auk, 2, April, 1885, p. 2 2 / ■ 
1949 . From the Sunflower State By D. B. R. Ibid No. n, Nov.. 
,388 - Ardea herodias. OolOgiSt’B^Oh ang^, VoU. 
Minor Ornithological Papers.-hi. Food of the Great Blue Heron. 
By 4m. P. Neild. Forest and Stream. XV, p. 7 - - Large snakes and 
fish. 
igoo. An Early Bird. 
— Ardea herodias. 
By C. T. Richardson. Ibid., April 24 , p. 267 . 
For, & Stream, Yols 34 
For, & Stream, vol, so i68 p 
Powder-down Feathers in Herons. By C. E. B. Ibid., p. 
,024 Winter Notes. [By F. T. Jencks.] Ibid.. No. 2 , p. IS- Records 
a Great Blue Heron taken in Milton, Vt„ Dec. 22 , 1884 , and the capture 
of two Great Gray Owls at the same place the otesNftt. Hi*. U 
Prairie Warbler killed in Rhode Island, Dec. 4 , 1 S 84 . 
Shufeldt on the Osteology of the Ardein as. f—This paper contains a 
detailed description of the osteology of Ardea herodias and Nycticorax 
violaccus. with excellent figures of the principal parts of the skeleton in 
these two forms, as well as of some bones of Ardea candidissima. The 
paper concludes with a ‘Synoptical and Comparative Review of the chief 
Osteological Characters of certain species of North American Ardeinte. 
—J. A. A. 
t Osteolog^al Studies of the Subfamily Ardeinte. By R. W. Shufeldt, M. D. 
re a "ed ) J ° Ur "' C ° mP ‘ Medt and Surg ’> .T ul X and October, 1889. (Separates 
, _ V 
Auk* YU. July, 1890, p, £ 7/- 2 7X- 
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