The Yellow-crowned Night Heron ( Nycticorax violaceus') in Nova 
Scotia.— It may be of interest to report that on Tuesday, April I, 1902 , 
while walking through the Quincy Market -in Boston, I found in the 
stall of F. H. Hosmer & Co. a female Yellow-crowned Night Heron, in 
full nuptial plumage, and in a remarkably fresh state of preservation, 
which had been received on the previous Saturday in a shipment of birds 
from Yarmouth, N. S. 
On looking the matter up, I found that it had been shipped by Mr. 
Howard Smith of Hawks Point, Cape Sable Island, and had been killed 
somewhere in that vicinity by Mr. R. C. Maxwell of Lower Clark’s 
Harbor, Shelburne County, Cape Sable Island. I had a letter from Mr. 
Maxwell in which he told me of his killing the bird, and another from Mr. 
Smith, in which he writes, among other things, under date of April 21 , 
as follows : — 
u Since receiving your letter, I have learned through a friend of mine, 
Mr. I. K. Doane, lighthouse 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 
Benjamin Doane, taxidermist, Yarmouth, N. S.” 
It seems from this interesting information that at least three birds of 
this species had wandered this far north during the spring migration.— 
Fred. H. Kennard, Boston, Mass. a/-H 
Auk, XIX, Oct., 1902, pP- 3 ? < ’~ / ' 
The Yellow-crowned Night Heron near Toronto. — While engaged, 
last year, in naming and arranging the collection of Canadian birds at the 
Provincial Museum in this city, I found an immature Night Heron, which 
proved on examination to be a young “Yellow-crowned” ( Nycticorax vio¬ 
laceus). Mr. John Maughan, Jr., who mounted the specimen, has kindly 
looked up its record, and finds that it was taken on August 15, 1898, at 
his father’s farm near the Woodbine, Toronto. This is, I think, the first 
time that the bird has been taken in Ontario, though there are one or two 
records of its appearance in eastern Canada.— J. B. Williams, Toronto, 
0nL Auk, XXill, Apr., 1906, p-.fU*. 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James H.Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
2 Auk, XXIII, 1906, 220. 
Auk, XXIII, Oct., 1905, p.447. 
68 Nyctanassa violacea. Yellow-crowned Night Heron.—A 
young bird taken August 15, 1898, by Mr. John Maughan, is in the Provin¬ 
cial Museum. 2 
