Hawk Point, Cape Sable Island, N. S. 
Apr.21st, 1902. 
Mr.F.H.Kennard 
85 Devonshire St., 
Dear Sir, 
Boston, Mass 
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of 
April 15th in which you ask. for information respecting the heron I had 
shipped to Mr.C.W.Rackliffe. 
I beg to submit the following in reply to the same. The bird was 
discovered in this locality and I think was shot sometime during the 
week ending the 29th March by Mr.R.G.Maxwell of this place. Since re¬ 
ceiving your letter I have learned from a friend of mine, Mr.J.K.Doane, 
light-house keeper at this place, that two other specimens of this bird 
have been captured this spring in our neighboring County, viz., Yarmouth 
and are now mounted and on exhibition in the store of Mr.Benjamin Doane 
taxidermist, Yarmouth, N.S. The Heron is a perfect stranger in these 
parts, having never been seen so far north on the Atlantic coast belore. 
xxxxxxxxxxxx I remain 
Yours very truly 
Howard Smith. 
(Copy ). 
no 
